rbl@nitrex.UUCP ( Dr. Robin Lake ) (02/18/91)
In article <GHENNIGA.91Feb2173927@tesla.nmsu.edu> ghenniga@nmsu.edu (Gary Hennigan) writes: |> |> We just got our AVS manuals for our implementation of AVS |>running on a GS1000. I'm having some difficulty trying to get my data |>into a form readable by AVS and was hoping someone out there could |>help me out or even give me a good approach to take, and maybe some |>example code in FORTRAN or C. |> Here's what I'd like to be able to do. I have a file of |>results from some FEM analysis code. Most of these results are |>Electric field data in 2D or 3D. I'll take the 3D as an example: The |>data file is ASCII with data of the form: |> |> Xposition Yposition Zposition Xcomponent Ycomponent Zcomponent |> |>where position is the nodes position in cartesian coordinates and |>component references a particular magnitude of the field in a |>particular coordinate direction. |> From what I can read in the manual it seems the best way to |>write a nice general translator is to create an AVS "field" file but |>the manual seems to be a little vague on how to write code to output |>the correct format "field" file. I just keep getting the error from |>AVS that the files I've been attempting to write are not AVS field |>files. |> |> Any help or experiences any one has had with AVS would be |>greatly appreciated. |> |>Thanks, |>-- |>Gary Hennigan |>+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |>+ e-mail: ghenniga@NMSU.Edu, henninsf@maxwel.NMSU.Edu + |>+ Electrical Engineering; PhD Student, Computational Electromagnetics + |>+ Physical Science Laboratory (ASS)istant systems programmer + |>+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Stardent's tech support person crafted a very similar Network Editor module for us during a demo last summer. We have just received our GS3000 based on that demo. Unfortunately, the code bears the following warning: Copyright (c) 1989 by Stardent Computer Inc. All Rights Reserved This software comprises unpublished confidential information of Stardent Computer Inc. and may not be used, copied or made available to anyone, except in accordance with the license under which it is furnished. If you can get Stardent to allow posting of this, I'd be happy to do so... Rob Lake BP Research rbl@BP.COM