Identifying regions of maximum stress in an FEA solution.Isolating Particles with Value Blanking.Computing Iso-volumes Using Value Blanking.Watch these video tutorials on Value Blanking.
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You can extract the slice and then turn Value Blanking off and see the full extent of your domain. This is where data extractions are very useful. It will reduce the number of volume cells that you are displaying as well. That will effectively reduce the size of the slice. Select Value Blanking from the Plot menu. In the case of flow around the cylinder, use Value Blanking to constrain the slice to a smaller region. How can I draw a slice only near the cylinder? If you need help with doing this, please contact our technical support team at 8. You may have a grid in say, XY dimensions and you could bring that into Tecplot as a IJ-ordered data set. If you are not with one of those vendors, your data is usually going to be structured. You should be able to import your data quite easily and do post processing activities. We have partnerships with PIV vendors LaVision, Dantec Dynamics, TSI, and those write out Tecplot format directly. I think the answer here is not iso-surfaces so much as contouring. How do I create iso-surfaces through a 2D PIV data? To have slices go through surfaces zones, open the Slice Details… dialog. The Tecplot 360 default setting has slices going through only volume zones. Can I limit the slices to go through just volume zones? To do this by default, run Tecplot 360 with a macro on the command line that includes a command to start listening.
This means that you have to turn on listening on the Tecplot 360 side before you can communicate. Python requires a socket connection to communicate, so you can use your favorite IDE or command line script with Python. Is there any way that I can turn on the accept Python connections by default? Video: PyTecplot Recording and Connections 5. More information can be found on the PyTecplot page. This will seed and create a Python script that can be run either in batch mode or connect mode in Tecplot 360. To do this select Record PyTecplot from the Scripting menu. You can record a Python script and then connect to a live Tecplot 360 instance. PyTecplot, our Python API, has the capability to control an interactive instance of Tecplot 360 directly from Python. How can I use Python with Tecplot 360 to automate the data analysis process? Often, you will just need to remove or add a comment to switch between defaults.įor more detailed information, search for the Customization section in the Tecplot 360 User Manual. The config file is seeded with many, many settings. And this is the case with all data-dependent values – that you will need to change them after your data is loaded. However, you can use a quick macro to change the contours setting once you have loaded your data. This is because contours are dependent on the data. Now lighting will be set to your specifications on startup.Ĭontours, however, cannot be turned on by default.
Then paste that macro into the config file. (Some people say that lighting distorts the color of the contours.) Simply record a macro that turns off the lighting effect. As a result, adding or editing macro commands in the config file will change the default settings.įor more detailed information, see the Customization section in the Tecplot 360 User Manual.Let’s say you want to switch off lighting by default. Tecplot reads and executes commands in the config file on startup. They can be changed by editing the config file (tecplot.cfg) located in your installation directory.
Many Tecplot 360 startup settings can be set by default. Can I change the default startup settings?