[vtkusers] How can I convert different data formats to vtk?

[Cory Quammen]

Vijaya,

I have no advice for you regarding MayaVi. Perhaps someone else on the
list might, or you might check with the MayaVi mailing list.

- Cory

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Vijaya B Kolachalama
<aeroroyce at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Cory,
> Thanks for the reply.
> My problem is slightly different where I'm using MayaVi (a vtk based
> application) for visualization.
> I perform simulations in fluent, exported data into Ensight gold format and
> used to visualize in MayaVi.
> However, MayaVi has a limitation of importing only single block format
> ensight files.
> Now, my simulation complexity increases and fluent automatically generates
> multi-block ensight files are output and they cannot be loaded in MayaVi.
> Alternative option for visualizing in MayaVi is to load input files in vtk
> format and I'm having problems in coverting my output simulation files into
> vtk format.
> I have absolutely no experience in vtk but I'm familiar with MayaVi that
> uses vtk.
> I hope I explained the problem very well and would appreciate any
> suggestions.
> Vijaya
>
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Cory Quammen <cquammen at cs.unc.edu> wrote:
>>
>> VTK has classes for reading Ensight Gold and certain AVS files:
>>
>> See:
>>
>> http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkEnSightGoldReader.html
>> http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkAVSucdReader.html
>>
>> There may be more readers available for the other formats you
>> mentioned. See http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classes.html for
>> more info.
>>
>> I haven't used these readers, so I don't have details on how well they
>> work. Someone else may be able to address your questions if you try
>> these classes on your data and you have problems.
>>
>> - Cory
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Vijaya B Kolachalama
>> <aeroroyce at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello everyone,
>> >
>> > Is there any quick way of converting different types of data format
>> > files to
>> > vtk files?
>> >
>> > All these data files are huge because I'm trying to visualize 3D
>> > simulation
>> > data.
>> >
>> > I use fluent, so I can export my simulation data into Ensight gold,
>> > ascii,
>> > avs, cgns,  data explorer, fast, tecplot, nastran, patran, radtherm,
>> > formats. But I need a converter to vtk formats.
>> >
>> > Can anyone help me out with this?
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance.
>> >
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Cory Quammen
>> Center for Computer Integrated Systems for Microscopy and Manipulation
>> (CISMM)
>> Department of Computer Science
>> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
>> http://www.cs.unc.edu/~cquammen
>
>



-- 
Cory Quammen
Center for Computer Integrated Systems for Microscopy and Manipulation (CISMM)
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~cquammen