By treating each plot in a separate frame and using Tecplot's frame-linking option, I did the plot with few keystrokes. One example of the flexibility with Frames was for a plot I was trying to construct that no other plotting program was able to do: A constant life diagram that is being used in fatigue analysis involves two overlaid plots with one of them rotated 45 degrees. You can have multiple frames that give you access to the same structure (Data Set > Data File > Zones ) or Single Data set with multiple Data File > Zones. At first, this structure may sound complicated, but there is a method to this madness: Think of the top level (Frames) as a separate workspace that holds the underlying structure as described. Tecplot's data hierarchy is based on Frames that contain Data Sets, which can include Data Files that are divided in Zones.
The source of the plot data can be Excel, Plot3D, Grid-gen, HDF, DEM, Fluent or CGNS or plain ASCII format.Īfter you load the data in Tecplot, its native data structure takes over. When I'm referring to "huge," consider that you can have up to 32,700 variables or zones per data set with variables, each handling over 2 billion data points. To the new user, Tecplot is designed to handle huge amounts of data either as a standalone plotting program or linked to CFD and FEM applications with multifaceted post processing demands. The latest version gives users complete control of how they look Tecplot claims to have been on a continuous improvement path over the last CFD: Tecplot can do complicated plotting that
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