During an Ansys Polydata session, you will generally need to read and write several kinds of files. Similarly, Ansys Polyflow itself reads and writes a number of different files, including files for exporting data to various visualization and postprocessing tools. Information about all of these files is provided in this chapter.

Table 5.1: Files Written and Read by Ansys Polydata and Ansys Polyflow lists the files that Ansys Polydata and Ansys Polyflow can read and/or write. You can use this table to get an overview of the files you may be using, to find out which codes write a particular file, and to see where to look for more information on each file. Note that some of the files included in the table are actually converted to the appropriate format when they are read, but no distinction is made here. The section that discusses each file will address this issue, where appropriate.