[Paraview] VTK file format

[Felipe Bordeu]

you can use xdmf, with a .xmdf file for the light data (meta data), and 
2 files or more (hdf5 or binary) for the heavy data (field data, point 
data, connectivity...).

more info in http://www.xdmf.org




On 13/12/2011 21:01, Robert Maynard wrote:
> I am pretty sure that both the Legacy VTK and the XML VTK do not
> support writing out the mesh and field data as different files.
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Alexander Podlozhnyuk
> <xmedvedeg at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>> 2011/12/13 Alexander Podlozhnyuk<xmedvedeg at gmail.com>
>>> Hello!
>>> I use VTK file format for visualizing scientific data in Paraview. I write
>>> in this file mesh (point_data + cell_data) and Field Data (pressure
>>> distribution for each point and etc.). Is it possible to write mesh data and
>>> field data in separate vtk-files and read them together in Paraview? Or
>>> should I use another file format ?
>>> Thank you.
>>
>> Dear all, have you any idea ?
>>
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