This file format is for a series of points that can be used to specify a location to be used as probes within a volume part (see Point Parts). The point data in this file is not loaded into EnSight as geometry. The format to load points as geometry is a different section (see EnSight Gold Casefile Format).

Point part points can be loaded from a text file with the following format:

Line 1 is the version number in the form "#Version <version number>", where version number is a floating point value. The version number is currently 1.0.

Line 2 is a keyword indicating the file type: "#EnSight Point Format".

Lines 3 through n contain the floating point values for the x, y and z coordinates, respectively, of each point. The values must be separated by commas or spaces and each line may contain the x, y, and z values of only one point, terminated by a carriage return. The number can be exponential (2 or 3 exponent values) or floating. Any lines 3 through n that begin with a "#" are considered comments and are ignored.

example:

#Version 1.0
#EnSight Point Format
0.00000e+00,0.00000e+00,0.00000e+00
# This is a comment line and is ignored
1.00000e-01,1.00000e-001,3.00000e-001
2.0,3.00000e-01,6.00000e-001
3.00000e+00,3.50000e-01,1.70000e+00
4.20000e+000,5.00000e-001,1.80000e+000
5.40000e+000,6.00000e-001,1.90000e+000
6.50000e+000,8.00000e-001,1.95000e+000
7.00000e+000,1.00000e+000,2.00000e+000