Handy Tecplot Add-ons

Tecplot is great to make nice looking graphs and animations. However, to explore data, it is sometimes not as convenient as Rubens, the default visualisation software from the TELEMAC project to actually explore the data. Unfortunately, Rubens does not handle 3D data so for ESTEL-3D, there is not much choice. Below are a list of add-ons that make the Tecplot experience a bit nicer:

= telconv = Regina Nebauer developed a fantastic add-on which can be used to load Serafin files from ESTEL-2D or TELEMAC-2D into directly from Tecplot. The  is hosted on the subversion repository, grab it with:

Compile the add-on. Drop it into the bin/ folder and add "$!LoadAddOn "LinkTime"" to the tecplot.add file.


 * requires Tecplot 360

= LinkTime = This Tecplot add-on allows the time record between separate frames to be kept in sync. That way you can look at different variables and scan through the time steps.

Compile the add-on or download the binary. Drop it into the bin/ folder and add "$!LoadAddOn "LinkTime"" to the tecplot.add file.

To use it, tick the "Link Solution Time" box in the "Animate" menu.


 * requires Tecplot 360
 * source
 * Official Tecplot link: http://www.tecplottalk.com/addons/timelink/

= TimeSeries = This Tecplot add-on allows a time profile to be generated at any location in the mesh.

Compile the add-on or download the binary. Drop it into the bin/ folder and add "$!LoadAddOn "TimeSeries"" to the tecplot.add file.

To use it, see the "Time Series Plot" sub-menu in the "Tools" menu.
 * requires Tecplot 360 r2
 * source
 * Official Tecplot link: http://www.tecplottalk.com/addons/timeseries/

= Converting serafin or volfin files to Tecplot format =

Back in the day, JP Renaud created a little script to convert standard TELEMAC files (serafin or volfin) to Tecplot format. The script is available from the src/tel2tec folder in the estel-scripts directory on the subversion server:

It will probably require tweaking as it make use of the "iargc" extension of the Intel Fortran compiler to be able to use command line arguments in a Fortran90 binary. Just have a look at the source and modify it as needed. If there is a need, the script will be improved but this should not be necessary as the    Tecplot add-on is a better option.