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<span lang="en-ca">Emmanuel<br>
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</span>In my experience HDf5 data sets have such a flexible structure
that there will be no magic conversion from hdf5 to vtk, unless you
have some specific tools made for the purpose. I see that there is a
general tool in the H5utils, but it looks pretty basic, and possibly
too simple for CFD output.<br>
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You might be better off without the HDF5 format, unless you are a hard
core developer, because frankly its pretty low level stuff.<br>
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Could you write your CFD out put to the VTK legacy file type??<br>
see<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.vtk.org/pdf/file-formats.pdf">http://www.vtk.org/pdf/file-formats.pdf</a><br>
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that is very simple option.<br>
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Burlen<br>
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Ogedengbe, Emmanuel wrote:
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<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-ca"></span><span lang="en-ca"></span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" name=""><span lang="en-ca"><font face="Arial"
size="2">After installation of VTK for use with purely C++ on windows,
I have been struggling with how to get started with</font></span></a><span
lang="en-ca"></span><span lang="en-ca"><font face="Arial" size="2">
reading my CFD datasets for visualization.</font></span><span
lang="en-ca"></span><span lang="en-ca"> <font face="Arial" size="2">I
have done some research with HDF5</font></span><span lang="en-ca"></span><span
lang="en-ca"><font face="Arial" size="2"> but having problem with</font></span><span
lang="en-ca"></span><span lang="en-ca"> <font face="Arial" size="2">having
to</font></span><span lang="en-ca"></span><span lang="en-ca"> <font
face="Arial" size="2">go into increasing number of third party</font></span><span
lang="en-ca"></span><span lang="en-ca"> <font face="Arial" size="2">software</font></span><span
lang="en-ca"></span><span lang="en-ca"><font face="Arial" size="2">
and libraries.</font></span><span lang="en-ca"></span><span lang="en-ca">
<font face="Arial" size="2">Recently, I learnt that</font></span><span
lang="en-ca"></span><span lang="en"> H5utils</span><span lang="en-ca"></span><span
lang="en"> can convert</span><span lang="en-ca"></span><span lang="en">
HDF5 datasets into the formats required by other free visualization
software</span><span lang="en-ca"></span><span lang="en"> like VTK. But
it</span><span lang="en-ca"></span><span lang="en">’</span><span
lang="en-ca"></span><span lang="en">s only for UNIX systems, though</span><span
lang="en-ca"></span><span lang="en"> it appears</span><span
lang="en-ca"></span><span lang="en"> help can come from</span><span
lang="en-ca"> </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://cygwin.com/"><span lang="en-ca"></span><u><span lang="en"><font
color="#0000ff">CygWin</font></span></u><span lang="en-ca"></span></a><span
lang="en-ca"></span><span lang="en"> .</span><span lang="en-ca"></span><span
lang="en"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-ca"></span><span lang="en">Can anyone
help? I just want to</span><span lang="en-ca"></span><span lang="en">
visualize</span><span lang="en-ca"></span><span lang="en"> simple 2D/3D
grid-based scalar and vector flow fields simulated</span><span
lang="en-ca"></span><span lang="en"> with</span><span lang="en-ca"></span><span
lang="en"> my native codes.</span><span lang="en-ca"></span><span
lang="en-ca"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-ca"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-ca">Thanks in anticipation</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-ca">Emmanuel</span></p>
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