Create a "Getting your data into VTK/ParaView" guide
From an old discussion with Berk. We need to have good documentation on how to get your data into the most common formats in ParaView. Here is Berk and my thread:
I fully agree. We really need to write a "Getting your data into VTK/ParaView" guide. I would cover these for now:
- VTK formats (legacy and XML)
- Xdmf
- HDF5
- NetCDF
- Exodus
- Plot3D
- Raw binary
I have been wanting this for quite a while now. Maybe 2016 is the time to do it...
-berk
On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Scott, W Alan wrote: Excellent, that worked. Thanks!
This needs to be documented somewhere other than in the doxygen/nightly class docs. I never would have figured out your example without your help. Don’t forget that the vast majority of our users aren’t programmers… Why not document it on the Wiki somewhere?
Alan
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: plot3d file format with function files
Aha! You need to use the Plot3D reader with the meta-data file for this:
http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkPlot3DMetaReader.html
Look at the Web page for the format of the meta-data file. It lets you define a different xyz, q or f file for each timestep. The extension of the meta-data file is p3d. It will look something like this:
{ "auto-detect-format" : true, "filenames" : [ { "time" : 0, "xyz" : "mygeom.xyzhttp://mygeom.xyz", "function" : "f0.f" }, { "time" : 1, "xyz" : "mygeom.xyzhttp://mygeom.xyz", "function" : "f1.f" } ] }
PS: We don't support multiple function files per timestep.
On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott@sandia.govmailto:wascott@sandia.gov> wrote: Sorry, I wasn't completely clear.
The question is, what if you have numerous Function Files, one for each timestep? From what I can tell, ParaView won't open more than one file. Am I doing something stupid, or is this a feature hole?
Alan