[woodwick]

Once you have the forceCoeffs_bins given as output from the OpenFOAM2.2 motorBike simulation, how do you create the following picture?
Can you create the colored bars directly in Paraview? Do you have a quick creation procedure that does not require to open the forceCoeffs_bins, copy-paste its data, create the bars in LibreOffice, superpose the motorbike.png taken from paraview and scale it to the width of the bars...

(picture taken from http://www.openfoam.org/version2.2.0...processing.php)

[petr.f.]

You can use this python script. Save it as e.g. dat2csv.py and chmod to executable. It converts the forceCoeffs_bins.dat into a plain csv format. Then use Excel, Spreadsheet, whatever

PHP Code:

#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import os, sys

axis='x'
header=[]

filename='forceCoeffs_bins.dat'
file_list=open(filename,'r').readlines()

for file_line in file_list:
  if '# bins       :' in file_line:
    header.append('nBins'+','+ file_line.split(':')[-1].strip())
  if axis+' co-ords' in file_line:
    coords_list=file_line.split(':')[-1].split()
  if '# delta      :' in file_line:
    header.append('delta '+axis+','+ file_line.split(':')[-1].strip())
header.append('Time'+','+file_list[-1].split()[0])
header.append(axis+','+'Cm'+','+'Cd'+','+'Cl')

out_list=[]
out_list.extend(header)
for item in range(len(coords_list)):
  out_list.append(coords_list[item]+','+file_list[-1].split()[1::3][item]+','+file_list[-1].split()[2::3][item]+','+file_list[-1].split()[3::3][item])
#print out_list
print>>open(filename.replace('.dat','.csv'),'w'),'\n'.join(out_list)