Paraview generally treats raw binary files as completely regular data. You do not need an indexing/header file in this case. When you instantiate the raw reader it asks the user what the extent, spacing, data type, endianness etc are.
Xdmf can index into binary files generically. However this capability was added to the XDMF library after paraview 3.6, and I do not know if even the PV interface to XDMF in the development head allows that. David E DeMarle Kitware, Inc. R&D Engineer 28 Corporate Drive Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662 Phone: 518-371-3971 x109 On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Anton Shterenlikht <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:13:02PM -0500, David E DeMarle wrote: >> ParaView requires an xdmf file the help it interpret the contents of >> hdf5 files. See www.xdmf.org for an explanation of the xdmf format. > > I see.. > > And what about raw binary files, how is the data > interpreted? Do I also need to supply some plain > text data description to go with it? > > many thanks > anton > > -- > Anton Shterenlikht > Room 2.6, Queen's Building > Mech Eng Dept > Bristol University > University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK > Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 > Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 > _______________________________________________ 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
