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.
I suggest reviewing the TECPLOT Data Format Guide ( ftp://ftp.tecplot.com/pub/doc/tecplot/360/dataformat.pdf) for details on the ASCII file format. Our files look like this: TITLE="TECPLOT Wall Output" VARIABLES= "x" "y" "z" "density" "heat-flux" "wall-temp-out-surf" "absolute-pressure" "x-wall-shear" "y-wall-shear" "z-wall-shear" "y-plus" ZONE T="airfoil", i=362, j=69, k=1, DATAPACKING=BLOCK 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 ... Each "surface" is indicated by a ZONE header with the zone title, i/j/k counts, and DATAPACKING flag. David Parker Chromalloy - TDAG From: Novak Elliott <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 11/08/2010 12:08 PM Subject: [Paraview] Reading ASCII Tecplot data Sent by: [email protected] Hi everyone, 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 http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/data/tec/tec.html cannot be read in to Paraview (3.8.0 64-bit, running on Ubuntu 10.10). I'm pondering whether its worth writing a script to convert my DAT files to VTU instead... cheers, Novak._______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
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