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TECPLOT export

Posted Dec 14, 2010, 2:02 p.m. EST Results & Visualization Version 4.1 5 Replies

John Peterson
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Dear all,
has someone tried to export the results of a simulation (mesh, displacement, stress, velocity field, pressure, etc) to Tecplot? I'm just aware of the unsupported add-on at
www.tecplottalk.com/addons/comsol/
I'm not sure whether this work with version 4.1.
Thanks
john
PS: My ultimate intension would be plotting/visualizing large datasets, like the one you get after using a cluster.
5 Replies Last Post Aug 26, 2011, 1:19 p.m. EDT
Jim Freels mechanical side of nuclear engineering, multiphysics analysis, COMSOL specialist
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Posted: 1 decade ago Dec 14, 2010, 10:24 p.m. EST
When I first started using COMSOL (actually FEMLAB 3.0 at the time), I wrote my own convertor for Tecplot v10. It was not very good, in that, it did not convert all possibilities. However, I was able to get my data converted. I had been a Tecplot user for > 15 years, so I wanted some consistency.

Since then, Tecplot changed their pricing policy, and I got used to COMSOL graphics. I too would like to see a better solution. I think Tecplot could add a lot of capability to the COMSOL post-processing.

The Tecplot folks came to the COMSOL conference one year and set up a booth. I think they were exploring potential more than anything. Tecplot does support several of COMSOL competitors.
When I first started using COMSOL (actually FEMLAB 3.0 at the time), I wrote my own convertor for Tecplot v10. It was not very good, in that, it did not convert all possibilities. However, I was able to get my data converted. I had been a Tecplot user for > 15 years, so I wanted some consistency. Since then, Tecplot changed their pricing policy, and I got used to COMSOL graphics. I too would like to see a better solution. I think Tecplot could add a lot of capability to the COMSOL post-processing. The Tecplot folks came to the COMSOL conference one year and set up a booth. I think they were exploring potential more than anything. Tecplot does support several of COMSOL competitors.
Maxim Electromobility
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Posted: 1 decade ago Dec 15, 2010, 9:36 a.m. EST
Hi John,

I use this add-on for datafiles from COMSOL 3.5a, and it allows to import some data into Tecplot 360 2009 R2. This plugin works with fields, but not with geometries and meshes. I am thinking to start using 4th COMSOL version, so, I am also interested if the addon works with 4th COMSOL.

Maxim
Hi John, I use this add-on for datafiles from COMSOL 3.5a, and it allows to import some data into Tecplot 360 2009 R2. This plugin works with fields, but not with geometries and meshes. I am thinking to start using 4th COMSOL version, so, I am also interested if the addon works with 4th COMSOL. Maxim
John Peterson
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Posted: 1 decade ago Dec 15, 2010, 3:07 p.m. EST
Hi James and Maxim,
Thanks for your answers. My concern is that even though this is an "unsupported" add-on, I would have to pay a full Tecplot license.
Has anybody tried open-source visualization software, based on NetCDF?
www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/software.html

Greetings
john
Hi James and Maxim, Thanks for your answers. My concern is that even though this is an "unsupported" add-on, I would have to pay a full Tecplot license. Has anybody tried open-source visualization software, based on NetCDF? http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/software.html Greetings john
Scott Rumage
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Posted: 1 decade ago Dec 27, 2010, 7:26 p.m. EST
Hi All,

We are open to working with the Comsol and its user community to either create a Tecplot binary export from Comsol v4.1, or an upgrade of the v3.5a data loader.

Part of our process is to try to understand the number of Comsol users that would benefit from a Comsol/Tecplot connection -- is it ~10 users, or a ~100 users?

Letting us know your estimate and opinion helps us determine how to proceed.

Additionally, anyone is welcome to contact me directly on this subject: s dot rumage at tecplot dot com

Regards,
Scott
Tecplot
Hi All, We are open to working with the Comsol and its user community to either create a Tecplot binary export from Comsol v4.1, or an upgrade of the v3.5a data loader. Part of our process is to try to understand the number of Comsol users that would benefit from a Comsol/Tecplot connection -- is it ~10 users, or a ~100 users? Letting us know your estimate and opinion helps us determine how to proceed. Additionally, anyone is welcome to contact me directly on this subject: s dot rumage at tecplot dot com Regards, Scott Tecplot
Stephen Widdis
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Posted: 1 decade ago Aug 26, 2011, 1:19 p.m. EDT
At the University of Vermont we would be very interested in a Tecplot exporter for Comsol 4.2 Tecplot is used school wide in the College of engineering. In the research group that I work in we have used Fluent for a long time with Tecplot for post processing. We are in the process of migration to Comsol for many of our studies and would like to keep using Tecplot for several reasons. One of which is that we want all of our Comsol licenses being used to run models not postprocess.
At the University of Vermont we would be very interested in a Tecplot exporter for Comsol 4.2 Tecplot is used school wide in the College of engineering. In the research group that I work in we have used Fluent for a long time with Tecplot for post processing. We are in the process of migration to Comsol for many of our studies and would like to keep using Tecplot for several reasons. One of which is that we want all of our Comsol licenses being used to run models not postprocess.

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