Ordered_tec for MATLAB

Ordered_tec is a simple pack writing ordered data (structural data) to a binary tecplot file (.plt). Ordered_tec for MATLAB is written in MATLAB OOP. This package does not need any dependency, and it directly write binary files according to Tecplot binary data format.

Features

Basic Features

• Support 1, 2 and 3 dimensional data
• Support multi-zone file
• Support file types including grid, solution and full
• Support solution time and strand Id for zone
• Support auxiliary data for file and zone

Hightlight Features

1. Auto recognition the data type, supporting six types of data
2. Support exclude data with Begin, EEnd and Skip
3. Free setting of echo mode
4. Complete log system including log in xml and json
5. Read tec file easily
6. Easy GUI output with Matlab App mat2tec

Usage

Download and Configuration

Download the toolbox liton_ordered_tec.mltbx and install it in Matlab.

Coding

The Tecplot file consists of zones and data are storage in zone. Zones describe different set of data in space or in time. All the numbers of data in different zones in one file are same. Auxiliary data is extra data attached to file or zone which can be seen and used in Tecplot.

There are four classes usually used included in the ORDERED_TEC namespace. They are TEC_FILE, TEC_ZONE and correspondingly TEC_FILE_LOG, TEC_ZONE_LOG used to contain log.

To use the package, first you need some namespace declaration.

import liton_ordered_tec.*

Then you need to declare a TEC_FILE object and set its properties. The property Variables is a cell of string containing the variables' name which is required.

tec_file = TEC_FILE;
tec_file.Variables = {'x','y','w'};

You can also set some other properties optionally.

tec_file.FileName = 'Test';
tec_file.Title = 'Test';
tec_file.Auxiliary = {{'a1','1'},{'a2','2'}};

Then attach a TEC_ZONE object to the file and set its properties.

tec_file.Zones = TEC_ZONE;
% x, y, z are the data
tec_file.Zones.Data = {x,y,w};

You can also set some other properties optionally.

tec_file.Zones.ZoneName = 'zone_1';
tec_file.Zones.StrandId = 0;
tec_file.Zones.SolutionTime = 0.1;
tec_file.Zones.Begin = [1,2,1]; % begin of data from 2 in second dimension
tec_file.Zones.EEnd = [2,0,0]; % end of data offset 2 in first dimension
tec_file.Zones.Skip = [2,1,1]; % skip to write data by 2 in first dimension
tec_file.Zones.Auxiliary = {{'a1','1'},{'a2','2'}};

Before write data, you can set echo mode optionally.These classes are value class, always remember to use the form of obj = obj.set_echo_mode(...)

tec_file = tec_file.set_echo_mode('full','full');

And write data.These classes are value class, always remember to use the form of obj = obj.write_plt(...)

tec_file = tec_file.write_plt();

Now you can get log in tec_file's property last_log. Also you can write the log in a xml file.

tec_file.last_log.write_xml();

Contribution

You can just comment in issues or contact me by email to talk about your idea or demand. Thank you.

License

MIT License