[Paraview] TecPlot problem or question for alternative format

Zhanping Liu zhanping.liu at kitware.com
Fri Mar 26 10:36:36 EDT 2010


Farian:

    It seems the Tecplot file does not provide the section of x and y
corrdinates (before the solution) at all, or you just skipped it at your
e-mail for simplification purposes?

    -Zhanping

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Fabian Wein <fabian.wein at am.uni-erlangen.de
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I got a code which exports data (LBM) in a very simple format:
>
> ---
> TITLE=" LBM data"
> VARIABLES = "X", "Y", "RHO", "U", "V", "VOR"
>  ZONE T = "Z"
>  I=  351, J=  122, K=1,  ZONETYPE=ORDERED
>  DATAPACKING=POINT
>  DT=(SINGLE SINGLE SINGLE SINGLE SINGLE SINGLE)
>    1    1  0.000000000000000D+00  0.000000000000000D+00
> 0.000000000000000D+00  0.000000000000000D+00
>    2    1  0.000000000000000D+00  0.000000000000000D+00
> 0.000000000000000D+00  0.000000000000000D+00
> ...
> ---
> The format of point data is: x, y, several scalar data values
>
> I was told this is TecPlot and the guy uses TecPlot for visualization.
>
> I exchanged the format "D+" by "e+" and opened the file with the CVS
> version from 03/25/2010.
>
> The file is recognized by the TecPlot reader but the geometry of the
> visualization is not correct.
>
> I understand that TecPlot is quite complicated (I saw just the number
> of pages in the data format docu).
>
> I assume that it is more easy for me to convert the simple data to a
> structure that PV 3.6.2 can read.
> What is the most simple PV format for this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Fabian
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