[Paraview] VTK legacy file format supported?

[David E DeMarle]

VTK and ParaView were designed initially for visualizing spatially
defined data, and it is still what they are best at.

The modern mechanism in VTK for working with general data is to use
the vtkTable and vtkGraph data structures. These have their
corresponding readers/writers and file formats. The financial data
example predates them and isn't as well supported in ParaView.

The simplest way to get non spatially oriented data into ParaView is
to simply open up a CSV (comma separated values) text file.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909


On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Valdo Meyer <stan1313 at hotmail.fr> wrote:
> Ok, I understand but does it mean that PV is supposed not to be used for
> visualizing data that are not spacially defined?
> I have time series of global simulation quantities, such as energy, mean
> pressure and so, and I would like to draw a set of y=f(t) curves using the
> Plot filter, how could I built an appropriate datafile?
>
> ________________________________
> Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 09:31:50 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] VTK legacy file format supported?
> From: berk.geveci at kitware.com
> To: stan1313 at hotmail.fr
> CC: paraview at paraview.org
>
>
> Try opening one that actually has a mesh, like office.binary.vtk. That one
> is a bad example for ParaView in that it doesn't have any mesh associated
> with it, just bunch of arrays. We could make ParaView support that file
> pretty easily but it has never been a priority. Overall, support for the
> legacy VTK format is there and we don't plan on dropping it ever.
>
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Fred Fred <stan1313 at hotmail.fr> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I try to load financial.vtk - a legacy file from the VTKdata set - but PV
> does not seem to recognize the format!?
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Powered by www.kitware.com
>
> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at
> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html
>
> Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at:
> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView
>
> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
> http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Powered by www.kitware.com
>
> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at
> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html
>
> Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at:
> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView
>
> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
> http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
>