[Paraview] Question about importing data to visualize

[Moreland, Kenneth]

If I understand your question correctly, you have tabular data in an Excel spreadsheet, and you want ParaView to show you this data color coded on a plane.  Unfortunately, our ability to read in Excel and other tabular data is a bit underdeveloped right now, so there is no direct way to do this yet.  An indirect way is to output the spreadsheet as a space or tab delimited text file and then edit that text file to a VTK image file.  Details on the VTK file types are described in the following document posted to the Kitware Wiki.

  http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Image:VTK-File-Formats.pdf

-Ken


On 4/15/08 10:17 AM, "David Goldsmith" <davesg at ufl.edu> wrote:




Paraview list,

I am new to visualization software and have a very basic question.
The situation is I have a set of data created in an excel model, a
set of 100 data points, with an independent variable. I need to
create an animation of this data set changing over time. I have
played with Paraview and can create the planes I would like the
data to appear on, but cannot figure out how to import the data
onto the planes.

Any help would be appreciated, again, I'm new to this!

David

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