Hi Valdo, ParaView can definitely be used to visualize tabular data. However, very few people use the VTK file format for that - in fact that example is the only one I have seen and it was created for the VTK book a long time ago. If folks feel like they want to use the VTK format rather than CSV and such, we can fix this issue.
-berk On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:29 AM, David E DeMarle <[email protected]>wrote: > VTK and ParaView were designed initially for visualizing spatially > defined data, and it is still what they are best at. > > The modern mechanism in VTK for working with general data is to use > the vtkTable and vtkGraph data structures. These have their > corresponding readers/writers and file formats. The financial data > example predates them and isn't as well supported in ParaView. > > The simplest way to get non spatially oriented data into ParaView is > to simply open up a CSV (comma separated values) text file. > > David E DeMarle > Kitware, Inc. > R&D Engineer > 21 Corporate Drive > Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662 > Phone: 518-881-4909 > > > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Valdo Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok, I understand but does it mean that PV is supposed not to be used for > > visualizing data that are not spacially defined? > > I have time series of global simulation quantities, such as energy, mean > > pressure and so, and I would like to draw a set of y=f(t) curves using > the > > Plot filter, how could I built an appropriate datafile? > > > > ________________________________ > > Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 09:31:50 -0400 > > Subject: Re: [Paraview] VTK legacy file format supported? > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > CC: [email protected] > > > > > > Try opening one that actually has a mesh, like office.binary.vtk. That > one > > is a bad example for ParaView in that it doesn't have any mesh associated > > with it, just bunch of arrays. We could make ParaView support that file > > pretty easily but it has never been a priority. Overall, support for the > > legacy VTK format is there and we don't plan on dropping it ever. > > > > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Fred Fred <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > I try to load financial.vtk - a legacy file from the VTKdata set - but PV > > does not seem to recognize the format!? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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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