5 NetFEM with other Visualization Tools

You can use a provided converter program to convert the offline NetFEM files into an XML format compatible with the powerful offline visualization tool ParaView(http://paraview.org). The converter is located in .../charm/src/libs/ck-libs/netfem/ParaviewConverter/. Build the converter by simply issuing a ``make'' command in that directory(assuming NetFEM already has been built).

Run the converter from the parent directory of the "NetFEM" directory to be converted. The converter will generate a directory called ``ParaViewData'', which contains subdirectories for each timestep, along with a ``timestep''directory for index files for each timestep. All files in the ParaViewData directory can be opened by ParaView. To open all chunks for a given timestep, open the desired timestep file in ``ParaViewData/timesteps''. Also, individual partition files can also be opened from ``ParaViewData / timestep / partition_num''.