EXTERNAL: Re: [vtkusers] LS-Dyna

[Jean M. Favre]

Rupert Shute wrote:
> Mathieu,
> We would like to have some form of solution towards the end of Aug. Our
> analysts are finding it impossible to use LS-Post on the large datasets they
> are generating,

> was kind of assuming I could use vtkUnstructuredGrid's to represent any data
> that may come out of an FEA code.

"any data" might be going to far, but if your data is very large, a non 
trivial thing for your reader would be to implement "piece streaming", N 
cells out of M. I have done it for one in-house format and the 
performance is worth the additional effort.

Cheers
Jean

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