Available Reader Formats¶

Check the specificity of each reader in the table below.

File Formats (S = structured, U = unstructured, MZ = multi-zone, MI = multi-instant)¶
Format	Extended description	library needed
bin_tp	binary Tecplot format version 112 and 75. The 75 version was developed for compatibility with elsA.
fmt_tp	ASCII Tecplot format
hdf_avbp	HDF5 AVBP solution or mesh (topological boundary information included)	h5py
bin_avbp	binary file written by AVBP (temporal)
hdf_cgns	HDF5 file with CGNS meshes (time solution are not taken into account for now). To convert an ADF file to HDF, use the adf2hdf utility program. Extra elements are added to take into account for some specificities introduced by Numeca Autogrid/IGG meshing software.	h5py
netcdf	Network Common Data Form (NetCDF)
hdf_antares	HDF5 format specific to Antares	h5py
hdf_labs	HDF5 format specific to (written by) LaBS. (triangles and hexahedra)	h5py
column	column formatted file. If any, the lines of the header must start with a ‘#’ sign. All columns must have the same size. Rows are composed of numbers separated by spaces.	numpy
csv	Comma-separated value. If any, the lines of the header must contain the name of variables separated by the separator string. Columns may have different sizes. Rows are composed of numbers separated by the separator string.	numpy
igor	IGOR formatted 1D signal
matlab	Matlab	scipy
bin_v3d	binary voir3d elsA file
fmt_v3d	formatted voir3d elsA file
bin_plot3d	binary plot3D grid, Q or function files
ens_case	Ensight	vtk
bin_fvuns	Fieldview file format (topological boundary information included)
bin_vtk	VTK file format	vtk with numpy support
fmt_gmsh	Gmsh three-dimensional finite element mesh generator (mesh only)
prf	ASCII PRF format from Lattice-Boltzmann solver LaBs or ProLB
pycgns	python CGNS tree	pyCGNS
fluent	ANSYS Fluent

Topology Formats¶
Format	Extended description
elsa	Topology from elsA input file

Documentation of the file formats can be found on the redmine server.