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

[Berk Geveci]

This sounds like a good thing to post at paraview.uservoice.com. We try to
implement the top entries there.

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
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