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<DIV><SPAN class=332013609-10112010><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>This
is the code from the TecplotReader that handles the data connectivity
information:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=332013609-10112010><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>while
( !( tok != "T"
&&<BR> tok
!= "I"
&&<BR> tok
!= "J"
&&<BR> tok
!= "K"
&&<BR> tok
!= "N"
&&<BR> tok
!= "Nodes"
&&<BR>
tok != "E"
&&<BR> tok
!= "Elements"
&&<BR> tok
!= "ET"
&&<BR> tok
!= "ZONETYPE"
&&<BR> tok
!= "F"
&&<BR> tok
!= "D"
&&<BR> tok
!= "DT"
&&<BR> tok
!= "DATAPACKING"
&&<BR> tok
!= "VARLOCATION" )</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=332013609-10112010><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=332013609-10112010><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>These
are your options for the header. Good luck!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=332013609-10112010><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=332013609-10112010><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Adriano</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>===================================<BR><BR>Adriano Gagliardi
MEng PhD<BR>Business Sector Leader<BR>Computational Aerodynamics<BR>Aircraft
Research Association Ltd.<BR>Manton Lane<BR>Bedford<BR><BR>Tel: 01234 32
4644<BR>E-mail: agagliardi@ara.co.uk<BR>Url: www.ara.co.uk </FONT></P>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> paraview-bounces@paraview.org
[mailto:paraview-bounces@paraview.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>DParker@chromalloy.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> 09 November 2010 18:45<BR><B>To:</B>
Novak Elliott<BR><B>Cc:</B> paraview-bounces@paraview.org;
paraview@paraview.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Paraview] Reading ASCII Tecplot
data<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>I've had no issues reading ASCII TECPLOT
files into Paraview. We modified our CFD code to generate ASCII TECPLOT files
for post-processing in Paraview because we were having issues reading binary
PLOT3D files with Paraview. The ASCII files are very large and slow to read
though. Also we don't yet have a good solution for generating derived variables
from the raw data - we're using a Python script to generate a series of
Calculator filters. </FONT><BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>I suggest
reviewing the TECPLOT Data Format Guide (</FONT><A
href="ftp://ftp.tecplot.com/pub/doc/tecplot/360/dataformat.pdf"><FONT
face=sans-serif
size=2>ftp://ftp.tecplot.com/pub/doc/tecplot/360/dataformat.pdf</FONT></A><FONT
face=sans-serif size=2>) for details on the ASCII file format.
</FONT><BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Our files look like this:</FONT>
<BR><TT><FONT size=2>TITLE="TECPLOT Wall Output"</FONT></TT> <BR><TT><FONT
size=2>VARIABLES= "x" "y" "z" "density" "heat-flux" "wall-temp-out-surf"
"absolute-pressure" "x-wall-shear" "y-wall-shear" "z-wall-shear"
"y-plus"</FONT></TT> <BR><TT><FONT size=2>ZONE T="airfoil", i=362, j=69, k=1,
DATAPACKING=BLOCK</FONT></TT> <BR><TT><FONT size=2> 2.42144130E-02
2.40880810E-02 2.39595771E-02 2.38230173E-02
2.36812476E-02 2.35372968E-02 2.33908389E-02
2.32443120E-02 2.30974443E-02 2.29516029E-02
2.28067115E-02 2.26650704E-02 2.25249752E-02
2.23834831E-02 ...</FONT></TT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Each
"surface" is indicated by a ZONE header with the zone title, i/j/k counts, and
DATAPACKING flag. </FONT><BR><BR><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=2>David Parker
<BR>Chromalloy - TDAG</FONT> <BR><BR><BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif color=#5f5f5f
size=1>From: </FONT><FONT face=sans-serif
size=1>Novak Elliott <n.s.j.elliott@curtin.edu.au></FONT> <BR><FONT
face=sans-serif color=#5f5f5f size=1>To: </FONT><FONT
face=sans-serif size=1>paraview@paraview.org</FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif
color=#5f5f5f size=1>Date: </FONT><FONT
face=sans-serif size=1>11/08/2010 12:08 PM</FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif
color=#5f5f5f size=1>Subject: </FONT><FONT
face=sans-serif size=1>[Paraview] Reading ASCII Tecplot data</FONT> <BR><FONT
face=sans-serif color=#5f5f5f size=1>Sent by:
</FONT><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>paraview-bounces@paraview.org</FONT>
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<BR><BR><BR><FONT size=3>Hi everyone,<BR><BR>What is the current status of
Paraview's ability to read in Tecplot data? I've had mixed success reading
in ASCII (usually *.DAT) files. For example, many of the DAT files listed
here </FONT><A
href="http://people.sc.fsu.edu/%7Ejburkardt/data/tec/tec.html"><FONT color=blue
size=3><U>http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/data/tec/tec.html</U></FONT></A><FONT
size=3> cannot be read in to Paraview (3.8.0 64-bit, running on Ubuntu
10.10).<BR><BR>I'm pondering whether its worth writing a script to convert my
DAT files to VTU instead...<BR><BR>cheers,<BR>Novak.</FONT><TT><FONT
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