The following two lines in the script reads in the names of the zones and the data available in the zones of the tecplot file. The first part of the tecplot_import_diode.lsf file reads the data from the example_diode_tecplot.dat file. Names and units depend on original data source but we must convert units to SI (m). The following example shows how the tecplotread command can be used to import data from these files into CHARGE. Special field “FETriangle” represents the triangulation and X and Y coordinates of mesh are treated as node data. Out = tecplotread('filename.dat','zonename','dataname') List all of the data fields associated with the zone. ? tecplotread('filename.dat','zonename') List all zones ( domains) in the data file. Tecplot uses the number of values on the first row to determine how many variables there are.Imports data from Tecplot formatted file (text). You can change this from within Tecplot once the data is loaded. Tecplot will assume that the first variable is the X coordinate, the second the Y coordinate, and If your data is a simple plot, then you need only have it in a file with the values seperated by spaces or linebreaks. More information on preplot can be found in section 7.1 of the Tecplot manual. If you are going to be using the same set of data more than once or twice, it is probably best to run preplot so that you can load it more quickly. You can create a binary file from an ASCII file by running the program preplot on your data. Tecplot can either read ASCII (text) data files or data files in a Tecplot specific binary format. There, input files are gone over in more detail.

If you are going to be loading in more than a few variables, or want to create a complex plot, then you are strongly encouraged to read chapter 6 of the Tecplot manual, available in the Barker Library stacks. However, it needs to have a fairly strictly formatted input file. Tecplot can handle very complex input data.

Tecplot data format