[cig-commits] r14039 - doc/snac

[echoi at geodynamics.org]

Author: echoi
Date: 2009-02-10 18:00:58 -0800 (Tue, 10 Feb 2009)
New Revision: 14039

Modified:
   doc/snac/snac.lyx
Log:
Minor changes in "Converting to VTK files" section.



Modified: doc/snac/snac.lyx
===================================================================
--- doc/snac/snac.lyx	2009-02-11 01:24:48 UTC (rev 14038)
+++ doc/snac/snac.lyx	2009-02-11 02:00:58 UTC (rev 14039)
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#LyX 1.5.1 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
+#LyX 1.5.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
 \lyxformat 276
 \begin_document
 \begin_header
@@ -6302,6 +6302,15 @@
  described in the previous section.
  The last two optional arguments are used to set the range of time steps
  for data conversion.
+ Note that the first three arguments are global 
+\emph on
+node
+\emph default
+ numbers: they are always larger than corresponding global 
+\emph on
+element
+\emph default
+ numbers by 1.
 \end_layout
 
 \begin_layout Standard
@@ -6309,13 +6318,35 @@
 \family typewriter
 snac2vtk
 \family default
- automatically generates Parallel VTK Structures Grid files (.pvts) for each
+ automatically generates Parallel VTK Structured Grid files (.pvts) for each
  time step so that there is no need for an extra step to combine data even
  for the parallel cases.
+ It is the group of .pvts files that need to be loaded in ParaView or other
+ visualization tools for VTK.
  However, .vts files should not be removed because .pvts files only refer
  to .vts files rather than contain actual data.
 \end_layout
 
+\begin_layout Standard
+When the cookbook example was run on 2 
+\begin_inset Formula $\times$
+\end_inset
+
+ 1 
+\begin_inset Formula $\times$
+\end_inset
+
+ 2 processors, the right usage of snac2vtk is
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout LyX-Code
+> snac2vtk 21 6 41 2 1 2
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+.
+\end_layout
+
 \begin_layout Paragraph*
 Example list of SNAC output files in the VTK format: 8 processors and 51
  outputs per processor.