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How can I look at the data in the FDS output files without Smokeview?

April 26, 2017Data FDS files look output smokeview

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How can I look at the data in the FDS output files without Smokeview?

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On the Tools Page, you will find a short program called fds2ascii that can be interactively run from the command prompt. The program will read a slice (SLCF), Plot3D (PL3D), or boundary (BNDF) file, and produce an ASCII (text) file containing time-averaged data. This data file can then be read into Excel or most any other graphics package.