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TECPLOT ASCII Files - (extension '.dat') TECPLOT ASCII Files (extension '.dat') TEC is a data directory which contains examples of TECPLOT ASCII files. TECPLOT ASCII files are used by the TECPLOT program, which is a visualization program for technical data. Technics Kn 1200 User Manual more. Typically, a user has an application program (fluid flow solver, engineering stress program, aeronautic simulator, heat flow program), that produces lots of data.

The user must write a subroutine that packages this data into a TECPLOT ASCII file format ( there are several, including special finite element forms). Then the user can postprocess the data, and display it, by running TECPLOT. TECPLOT ASCII File Characteristics: • ASCII (although TECPLOT can also create and use binary data files which typically have the '.plt' extension); • Color is not associated with the data, but can be added during postprocessing by the TECPLOT program, or by associating variables 'R', 'G' and 'B' with data, for instance; • 2D or 3D data, and can have time dependence; • No compression (except for the binary data format option); • Geometric data is stored, but the user can also store associated quantities such as pressure, temperature, or velocity. • Data is grouped into zones whose meaning is determined by the user.

Animation is achieved by starting with each zone being a 'time snapshot', and displaying one zone at a time. Reference: • The TECPLOT home page: Sample Files: •, 3D geometries, using using POINT and BLOCK formats. Contains 2 zones; •, 3D finite element, scalar data T(X,Y,Z), using the 'BLOCK' datapacking and 'FEBRICK' element; •, 3D finite element tetrahedral data, using 'BLOCK' datapacking and 'FETETRAHEDRON' element; •, 2D channel flow, with two boundary lines and an internal dashed line drawn, using POINT format; •, 2D data, uses the BLOCK format, created by the program; •; •; •, uses the POINT format; •, a small dataset on an L-shaped 2D region.

• color data (R,G,B)(X,Y,Z), for the SURFACE of a 3D human figure, using 'DATAPACKING=POINT' and the 'FEQUADRILATERAL' element; • color data (R,G,B)(X,Y,Z), for the SURFACE of a 3D human figure, using 'DATAPACKING=POINT' and the 'FETRIANGLE' element; • a image of the humanoid; •, a very simple 'animation' of two tiny frames, using the POINT format. Contains 2 zones. •, a multizone 2D plot, using the POINT format; Contains 2 zones.