Re: [Libmesh-users] dump the tecplot-accepted ASCII data file

[Roy S. <roy...@ic...>]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Liang wrote:

> May I dump the ASCII postprocessing data which could be read by
> Tecplot360 v2009?

Use tecplot_io.h and the class therein instead of gmv_io.h?

> All examples  dump the  gmv-type data, however the gmv package is
> not available from the Sandia website now,

Ouch!  You're not kidding!?!

http://www-xdiv.lanl.gov/XCM/gmv/GMVHome.html
"GMV is now exclusively licensed to CPFD Software, LLC"

That's quite disappointing.  I'm a big GMV fan, but I was always a
little wary about recommending a non-open-source utility to all our
users, and there's no way we can recommend something that's outright
unavailable.

Maybe we should switch our examples to VTK, and recommend Paraview?
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Roy