How to open Tecplot and load data file?

[Chris lboro]

Hi,

My program creates data files for use with Tecplot.  Rather than have to then open Tecplot (Amtec Engineering) manually and load the data file and change all the layous settings etc is there a way to do it using labview?

I saw an example of opening a word document etc but couldn't find any Tecplot support?

Many Thanks

Chris

[falkpl]

Opening external apps for automation is done usually with an activeX component (is avaliable) or with a system exec call.

You have to consult the docs for Tecplot, I have never used this specific application but have automated many external programs with the methods above.  The system exec is the simplier of the tow, you might need to google Tecplot and command line calls to figure out the exact call required but a guess would be    Tecplot.exe -'filename'.

Paul

[Chris lboro]

Hi,

Thanks, I'd already looked in the active x but couldn't see any tecplot support (maybe i just couldn't see it), the command lines for tecplot are:

To run Tecplot without preloading any data files, use:

tecplot 

To run Tecplot loading the data file ex1.plt as the first data set, use:

tecplot ex1.plt

To run Tecplot loading the data files ex1.plt, ex2.plt, and ex3.plt as the first data set, use:

tecplot ex1.plt ex2.plt ex3.plt

To run Tecplot using /usr/myhome as the Tecplot home directory and loading the Tecplot configuration file /usr/myhome/myset.cfg, use:

tecplot -h /usr/myhome -c /usr/myhome/myset.cfg

To read a Tecplot layout file sumtr1.lay, you would use:

tecplot sumtr1.lay

To read a Tecplot layout file calc.lay and replace the first data set referenced in the layout file with the data file temp.plt, you would use:

tecplot calc.lay temp.plt

However I have no experience of this and couldn't even to get it to open a file from ay folder other than the home directory! I need to open one from another drive i.e. F:\work\data\run 11\test.lay but have no idea if this is possible?!

Has anyone done this?

Thanks

Chris