[Paraview] Asking for Tecplot reader improvements and a sample Tecplot file for Unstructured Grids

[David E DeMarle]

I don't know the answer to most of the questions in this email.

I did however just push the latest VisItBridge tecplot reader into
ParaView master. That should make at least a few more tecplot files
readable.

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Richard GRENON <richard.grenon at onera.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The Tecplot reader is very usefull, but it should be further improved
> because many Tecplot files (written by the user according to Tecplot format
> specifications or written by Tecplot itself !) still cannot be read !
>
> I am usually using Structured grid, and the Tecplot reader works fine for
> most of my ASCII files, except for those that are written by Tecplot itself
> and that contain the STRANDID and SOLUTIONTIME tokens that are currently
> unsupported. I have to remove these unsupported tokens from all ZONE headers
> before reading with Paraview. May I suggest to ignore those unsupported
> tokens with just a warning rather than stopping reading ?
>
> Another problem is with Unstructured grids. Reading the mail of Beichuan Yan
> (subject =Paraview 3.14.1 Tecplot Reader Errors ), I tried to read several
> ASCII Tecplot files with unstructured grids. Some of my files made Paraview
> freeze, other could not be read and gave many error messages such as :
>
> "The record type XXX found in the file is unknown"
>
> where xxx may be some coordinate data or something else.
>
> It seems that the reader is bad positioned in the file because one or more
> token in the "ZONE" header are not recognized.
>
> Looking at the reader source file, I tried to modify the header of simple
> Tecplot files with TRIANGLE or QUADRILATERAL elements, but I never succeeded
> in identifying which token is not recognized.
>
> So, at that time, is the Tecplot reader really able to read unstructured
> grids or not ? If yes, could someone provide a sample Tecplot file for
> unstructured grid that Paraview can read ? This would help identifying what
> is not well recognized in the true Tecplot format.
>
> Thank you in advance for your help.
>
> Best regards
>
> --
>  Richard GRENON
>  ONERA
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