Hi Paul, Indeed #2 makes sense, especially if you want to change the in-house format. To write the file (from the simulation) it seems to me you should checkout
https://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/fortran/index.html I don't see why ParaView would be used in that process. Am I missing something? Dan On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 8:04 AM Paul Anton Letnes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, fellow paraviewers! > > I’ve spent some time playing with tutorials and user manuals, and so far > I’m impressed with what paraview can do. > > I am working on a specialized structural engineering program that, mainly, > performs simulations of pipes with circular cross sections. Each pipe is > split into nodes and 1D elements, and results are reported at points (or, > less commonly, elements) along the pipe. > > Some results are reported once per cross section; e.g, the tension in the > pipe has a single value for the entire cross section. Other results, e.g. > plastic strain, is reported for a number of points along the circumference > of the pipe (say, 5-50 points), for each of the cross sections. The results > can be either “snapshots” or time series. > > After what I’ve seen from the paraview documentation, possible approaches > include: > 1. Create a paraview plugin to read our current in-house file format. > 2. Directly write output files in an already supported format. > 3. Write pvpython scripts that perform the conversion on the fly. > > Approach 1 is probably a lot of work and the file format is not of > interest to anyone else (optimally, I’d like to replace it), so this seems > less attractive. Approach 3 is probably less user-friendly for our users. > > The second approach seems sensible, but the paraview documentation does > not give many examples of how to do this. Optimally, I’d like to write a > hdf5-based format (xdmf? netcdf? raw hdf5?) directly from Fortran, but I > haven’t found documentation on how to do this. Using hdf5 seems attractive > as it’s so widely supported by e.g. matlab, python, and other > postprocessing tools used in the industry. Getting a single results > database would simplify a lot of workflows! > > What would you guys do? > > Cheers > Paul > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview >
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