[Paraview] Opening xyz file /DEM in Paraview

[Aashish Chaudhary]

Is it ASCII gridded XYZ format?  If yes hopefully by the end of this week I
will have a GDAL based raster reader to read this format but it won;'t make
it to VTK 6 release because of time constraint.

Thanks,





On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com>wrote:

> If you actually have data in DEM format (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USGS_DEM), you can open it in ParaView by
> simply adding a .dem extension to the file. I am not sure if this is the
> case though. .xyz is a pretty common extension so it is hard for us to help
> without knowing specifics.
>
> If you load in a set of points with csv reader, you can use one of the
> Delaunay filters to mesh them.
>
> Best,
> -berk
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Hedieh Ebrahimi <
> hedieh.ebrahimi at amphos21.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have a Dataset with .xyz extension. I couldn´t open it in Paraview, so
>> I converted the file to .csv
>>
>> now I have a dataset with 3 arrays corresponding to x, y and z
>> co-ordinates.
>>
>> I used the "Table to Points" filter and I converted the my coordinates to
>> points.
>>
>>
>> Could anybody please tell me how I can open .xyz or .xyz.dat or .dat in
>> Paraview to represent Digital Elevation Model?
>>
>> Second, If I am importing csv. files in to paraview, what can i do to get
>> some kind of grid out of these points to better represent the geometry that
>> I was planning to show using the DEM ?
>>
>> Thanks for any help
>>
>>
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