[Nek5000-users] *.fld files to ...

Mon Apr 19 11:40:10 CDT 2010

Hi Stefan,

Yes, that is pretty much it; I am used to Tecplot and like it.  If visit
could do the job that could also be OK.  One problem with Visit is (and
I have gone through the manual) is that it does not seem to have a way
to deal with moving boundary problems when a different grid is output at
each time step (as NEK does).

Cheers,
Frank

On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 18:29 +0200, nek5000-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov
wrote:
> 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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