Tecplot Focus
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Tecplot Focus gets you answers faster. It enables you to quickly plot all your engineering and test data exactly the way you want. Analyze and explore complex datasets, arrange multiple XY, 2D and 3D plots, and communicate your results to colleagues and management with brilliant, high-quality output. Save even more time and effort by automating routine data analyses and plotting tasks. Available on Windows, Linux and Mac, Tecplot Focus meets the needs of your multi-platform engineering group.
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Features
Analysis
Exploration
Automation
Collaboration
Work with Large Datasets
Output Formats
Line, 2D, 3D, and Polar Plotting
Analysis
Create, Alter and Transform Data: Alter your data or create new data using mathematical expressions. Store mathematical expressions for reuse. Create mirror images of existing data. Create new data as a subset of existing data.
Interpolate: Choose from linear, inverse-distance, and kriging interpolation.
Triangulate: Create sets of triangles from data points defined in a 2D plane.
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Exploration
Slicing Tool: Interactively slice 3D data displaying mesh, contours, and vectors on the slice plane.
Iso-surface Tool: Change iso-surface values interactively.
Probing Tool: Click on the surface and display interpolated variable values and cell indices. Snap selections to nearest grid point.
Streamtrace Tool: Interactively seed rakes of streamlines, streamrods, and streamribbons in 2D and 3D. Specify lines to terminate streamlines. Display markers along streamlines spaced by vector magnitude. Place streamline rakes. Generate surface streamtraces on a no-slip wall based on shear stress vector field.
Contour Tool: Interactively add and delete contour lines or levels.
Extraction Tools: Interactively define sets of points or polylines to which 2D and 3D surface data is interpolated and extracted for display as a separate plot.
Curve Fits: Use least squares linear, polynomial, power, and exponential curve-fits. Use least squares curve-fit of linear combination of user-specified functions.
Data Blanking and Clipping: Set multiple constraints (or masks) to blank the display of data based on local field variables, functions of variables, grid indices, or depth from viewing position. Clip surfaces of 3D volume data to reveal internal variations. Omit zones or peel away surfaces to highlight specific details.
Plot Approximation Mode: Reduce the number of grid points used to render an image, while retaining its style. Control the threshold for activation, and the percentage of the grid points to use.
Data Extraction: Extract iso-surfaces, slices, subsets, streamtraces, polylines, the surface 3D volume finite-element data, and point sets from 3D data to new data segments (zones) for further plot customization.
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Automation
Configuration File and Batch Files: Set new defaults and perform initialization with configuration files and start-up batch files.
Python scripting offers added analysis capabilities (FFTs, splines, statistical functions, etc.) and greater scripting flexibility./div>
Macros and Python Scripting: Use macros and Python scripting to perform multiple, repetitive changes. Use Python's SciPy and NumPy libraries to perform additional calculations including FFTs.
Layout Files: Return to plots exactly as you created them by saving a layout file recording the frames, plotting attributes, and the data. Apply layout styles to the same dataset or different datasets.
Stylesheets: Includes all aspects and appearances of the plot frame without the data in a stylesheet. Restore a stylesheet to recreate an old plot or to create the same style of plot using a different set of data.
ADK: Add your own specialized functions, analyses, and data input/output to Tecplot Focus using the included Add-on Developer’s Kit (ADK). Use C, C++, and FORTRAN.
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Collaboration
Cross-Platform Capability: Run Tecplot 360 on Windows 7, Vista, and XP; Mac OS X; and Linux. Interchange Tecplot 360 macro files, layout files, stylesheets, color map files, and data files between all platform types.
Expanded Data and File Sharing: Export data in formats compatible with 2008 versions of Tecplot Focus.
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Work with Large Datasets
Parallel Processing (shared memory): Leverage up to 64 CPUs/Cores for faster computing-intensive operations, such as streamtraces, slices, and iso-surfaces.
Load on Demand: Load just the active data for faster time to first image. For example, a temperature contour plot only loads X, Y, Z and Temperature. When you switch to a new variable like pressure, Tecplot Focus loads pressure and unloads temperature (assuming it is not being used for anything else).
Multiple Data Sets: Create and display plots from up to 2,048 different sets of data simultaneously.
Multiple Zones & Variables: Include up to 1 million segments/zones per data set, up to 1 million variables (X, Y, Z, U, V, etc.) per data point.
Page Layout: Create up to 2,048 plots per page.
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Plot Annotation
Text: Place text interactively on plot. Set text color, angle, size, font, background color, and justification. Choose from Greek letters, mathematical symbols, superscripts, and subscripts.
Geometries: Interactively create polylines, rectangular boxes, circles, and ellipses. Duplicate, reposition, and resize geometries. Modify the geometries interactively and read from a file.
Images: Import JPEG, BMP, and PNG files into your plot.
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Output Formats
Vector-based and Raster Plot Files: Export vector-based files in encapsulated PostScript (EPS), PostScript, and Windows Metafile formats. Export raster files in BMP, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, PostScript bitmap, X-Window bitmap, and X3d formats. Configure image resolution independent of screen resolution.
Animations: Export Flash (SWF) and PowerPoint-compatible AVIs.
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Line, 2D, 3D, and Polar Plotting
With Tecplot Focus, you can create plots with absolute or elapsed times on any axis.
Time and Dates: Display time and date on any axis.
XY Features: Create scatter plots, line plots, bar charts, semi-log plots, log-log plots, error bar plots, splines, curve-fits, and more. Configure tick marks, symbols, legends and more. Work with multiple horizontal and vertical axes.
Mesh Plots: Display 1D, 2D, and 3D grids. Color mesh lines by variable, and remove hidden lines.
Contour Plots: Display contour lines, color flood between contour levels, and color fill cells (or elements). Use multiple contour variables to view and analyze interrelationships among several variables simultaneously.
Vector Plots: Display 2D and 3D vectors on planes, 3D surfaces, and in volumes. Display 3D vector components tangent to 3D surface. Specify length, color, line type, and head style. Color by variable.
Polar Plot Features: Create polar line plots (r, theta). Configure angles in radians, degrees or arbitrary units. Select between linear or logarithmic radius.
Edge Plots: Display the edges of data segments on 2D and 3D surfaces and volumes. Configure color and line type. Draw creases based on user-defined angle.
Lighting Effects: Set the level of translucency, and include specular highlighting on 3D surfaces. Set the lighting model as uniform, paneled, or Gouraud. Create shade plots
Combine Plot Types: Assign combinations of mesh, contours, vectors, scatter, boundary, shade, lighting effects, and volume attributes to various segments of data.
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