[dune-pdelab] ASCII data instead of .vtu files

[Christian Engwer]

Dear Conf86,

> Is it possible to extract data from .vtu files so that I can a table with
> x  y  U
> in order to proceed with other programs such as gnuplot, etc.?
> I found out one can get the data with some point-and-click effort in paraview, but this is quite cumbersome, especially if one wants to get the data for each time step.
> 
> Or is it also possible to write the data directly into an ASCII file instead of or in addition to a .vtu file?
> 
> The reason why I'm asking is that I want to investigate the temporal development of U in different fixed points in a t-U-diagram.
> 
> Thank you in advance!

I suggest to try out the gnuplot writer ;-)

There is also a flag for the vtkwriter, which specifies the output
format (ascii/binary/appended/...)

Ciao
Christian