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Frank,

why do you want to use TecPlot?
I know sometime it's just because you don't want to dig into another tool.
However if there are other good reasons I am sure Hank will be quite interested to improve VisIt.

Stefan



On Apr 19, 2010, at 6:24 PM, nek5000-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov wrote:

> Yes, I think a convert is the way to go. 
> I will release at some point my old TecPlot convert however I need to fix a few things first. Unfortunately I am quite busy these days so it will take some time.
> 
> Stefan
> 
> 
> On Apr 19, 2010, at 6:19 PM, nek5000-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov wrote:
> 
>> Hello Stefan,
>> 
>> Actually I would like to do that.  I am quite familiar with I/O and
>> Tecplot and could make a writer that outputs their binary format files.
>> This could be done two ways, outputting directly from NEK to Tecplot
>> format files (and therefore not using the *.fld files for I/O) or
>> something that takes the *.fld files and creates Tecplot format files.
>> I tend to think the second is the best method as the issue of parallel
>> I/O is sidestepped.  What is your opinion on this?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Frank
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 18:02 +0200, nek5000-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov
>> wrote: 
>>> Yes you're right the export capabilities to TecPlot are quite limited (no multizone support, etc.). 
>>> If you know the data layout of NEK it's quite easy write your own convert.
>>> We did that for TecPlot some time ago.
>>> 
>>> Stefan 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Apr 19, 2010, at 5:57 PM, nek5000-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Stefan,
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks.  I had tried that.  This translator appears to be a fairly rough
>>>> attempt to output data in Tecplot's format.  It at times writes out
>>>> files that Tecplot cannot read.  In addition, if dealing with temporal
>>>> data, there appears to be no way to write out the data at each time step
>>>> to a single Tecplot file.  Therefore, one would need to do this
>>>> (exporting through the menus) for every file at every time step.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Frank
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 17:34 +0200, nek5000-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Frank,
>>>>> 
>>>>> read your data into VisIt and use the export option.
>>>>> I don't recall exactly what output formats they support but there are quite a few.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Stefan
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Apr 19, 2010, at 5:30 PM, nek5000-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Does anyone know of a way to translate *.fld files to a different format
>>>>>> (perhaps such as HDF, CGNS, Plot3D etc.)?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Frank
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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>> Technische Universität Wien (Technical University of Vienna)
>> Inst. f. Strömungsmechanik und Wärmeübertragung (Institute of Fluid
>> Mechanics and Heat Transfer)
>> Resselgasse 3
>> 1040 Wien
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>> Cell:+436765203470
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