| Database plugin | File extension(s) | Description |
| ANALYZE | img, hdr | Rectilineargridof integer values containing MRI and EMRI data for human brains. |
| ANSYS | inp | ANSYS is a popular commercial suitę of multi-physics codes. The Vislt ANSYS reader reads in the ASCII version of the ANSYS mesh input file format. |
| AIDCFile | aux | LLNL ASCII file format containing target and beam diagnostic data for National Ignition Facility (NIF) lasers. |
| BOV | bov | Brickof values format where the database canbe bro-ken down into smali bricks of ZLIB compressed sca-lar arrays. |
| Boxlib2D | boxlib2d, boxlib2D | Structured AMR format for 2D. Reąuires a .visit file to group multiple time states into a single time-vary-ing database. |
| Boxlib3D | boxlib3d, boxlib3D | Structured AMR format for 3D. Reąuires a .visit file to group mul ti ple time states into a single time-vary-ing database. |
| CGNS | cgns | CFD General Notation System (CGNS) files contain platform-independent binary CFD (computational fluid dynamics) data for both unstructured and structured grids. Fore more information on CGNS, visit http: //www. cgn s. org. |
| CMAT | cmat | ASCII output of CMAT Fortran simulation. |
| Cosmos | cosmos | Astronomie al simulation data saved in HDF4 format. |
| CosmosPP | cosmospp, cos-mos++ | Astronomie al simulation data savedin HDF5 format. |
| Curve2D | curve, ultra, ult | ASCII text file containing 2 columns of X,Ypairs mat describe a curve. Each curve is preceded by a "#" comment containing the name of the variable. |
| Dune | Dat | ASCII file containing point meshes and variables written by Dune simulation co de. |
| EnSight | case | Ensight Gold case files. |
| Enzo | boundary, hierarchy | StanfordUniversity AMR Astrophysics simulation output saved in HDF4 format. |
| Exodus | ex, e, exo, ex2, exll, exii, gen, EX, E, EXO, EX2, EXH, GEN, exodus, EXODUS,nem-esis.NEMESIS | San di a National Laboratory's file format for storing simulation data. |
| FLASH | none | AMR data stored in HDF5 file format produced by the FLASH code from the University of Chicago. The -default^jbrmat FLASH c ommand line options must be specifiedto select mis database reader plugin because the plugin is not associated with any file extensions. |
| GDAL | adf, asc, bt, ddf, dem, ecw, gxf, jp2, map, mem, mpl, mpr, n 1, nat, nt£, pix, rsw, sid, vrt, xpm | GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats common in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) field. Vislt's GDAL reader can read the formats mat GDAL itself can read including popular GIS formats such as: Arclhfo binary grid and Digital Elevation Map (DEM). For a complete list of the file formats mat Visit can access through the GDAL reader plugin, ref er to http: //www. g dal. org/form at s_li st. html. Note that many of the formats that GDAL can read are actually image file formats. Vi sit reads image file formats through its Image database reader plugin unless you tell the GDAL plugin to read image files by setting the VISIT_READ_IMAGES_"WITH_GDAL environ-ment variable. |
| Image | BMP, JPEG. JPG, PNG, PNM, PPM, SDT, SPR, TIF, TIFF, bmp, imgvol, jpeg, jpg, png, pnm, ppm, sdt, spr, tif, tiff | The Image database reader plugin can read in many popular image file formats, allowing you to plot images of experimental data orperform image analysis. In addition, the Image database reader plugin supports the creation of image volumes, which are comprised of a set of 2D slice images that can be reassembied into a 3D volume. An image volume file is a text file (ending in .imgvol) mat contains the names of the images to be reassembledinto a 3D vol-ume. |
| KullLite | pdb, mkf | Input mesh files for Kuli simulation program. Data files are stored in PDB format. |
| Lines | dat | ASCII text format containing X,Y pairs or X,Y,Z tri-ples. |
| Mili | m, mili | Popular LLNL engineering format used in Dyna3D, Nike3D simulation codes. Reąuires use of the visit-mahsmili utility to create a .mili file mat can be opened. |
| NASTRAN | nas, f06 | NASTRANis a popular commercial finite element tool. The Visit NASTRAN reader plugin can import geometry from NASTRAN bulk data files. |
| NETCDF | nc, cdf, elev | NetCDF (Network Common Data Form) files are used to storę scientific, array-oriented datain a machinę-independent, binary format. NetCDF files often contain data from climate observations and results for climate simulations. |
| OVER-FLOW | dat, save | Binary Fortran output files containing overlayed cur-vilinear meshes. |
| PATRAN | neu | PATRAN is a popular commercial finite element code. The Visit PATRAN reader reads PATRANneu-tral files, which are ASCII format files mat contain unstructured geometry and simulation results. |
| PDB/Flash | pdb, rOOOO | The PDB database plugin is an umbrell a reader for multiple styles of files writteninthe PDB database format. Flash files are read by this plugin. Eąuation of state databases in PDB format can also be read using mis plugin. Finally, the PDB plugin supports reading wavelet-compressed data files generated with Pf3D simulation co de. |
| Pixie | h5 | 2D and 3D LANL simulation datasavedin HDF5 format. |
| Plot2D | p2d | Structured data format for simulation data in Plot2D format. |
| Plot3D | q,x | Structured data format for simulation data in Plot3D format. |
| Point3D | 3D | ASCI file format containing four columns of num-bers: X,Y,Z point and a datavalue. |
| SAF | saf | Arbitrary simulation data sto red in HDF5 file format by Sets and Fields (SAF) library. |
| SAM RAI | sam rai | Structured AMR data storedin HDF5 file format. Reąuires a Msit file to group multiple time states into a single time-varying database. |
| SAR | SAR, sar | Specific Absorption Rate image volume files. |
| STL | stL | Stereolithographic file format containing triangle coordinates |
| Shapefile | db£ shp | ESRI Shapefiles are commonly usedin GIS applica-tions to storę vector data(boundaries, roads, building footprints, etc). |
| Siło | pdb, siło | Popular LLNLfile format based on PDB mat supports scalar, vector fields, and materials stored on rec-tilinear, curvilinear, unstructured, or point meshes. Data can be splitup into multiple domains. |
| Spheral | sv, spheral | Spheral files contain results of coupled hydrodynami-cal and gravitational simulations in ASCII form. |
| TecPlot | plt, tec, tp | ASCII file format for the popular TecPlot plotting package. |
| Tetrad | h5, hdf5 | Tetrahedral meshes and variables storedin HDF5 file format. |
| TFT | dat, t£t | A SCII output of TFT Fortran simulation. |
| TimeVar-ingExodus | exE | Same as Exodus |
| VTK | vtk | ASCII files containing data from multiple kinds of objects from Visualization Tool kit (VTK). Fore more information ab out VTK, vi sit http://www.kit-ware.com. |
| Vi sta | vi sta | Hierarchie al file format based on Siło that stores data in HDF5 file format. |
| ViSUS | idx, vis | Research file format mat allows dynamie decomposi-tion of the file based on available processors and sup-ports efficientreading of data (and subsets of data) from the file. |
| Wavefron-tOBJ | obj | Alias Wavefront Objectfile format. Contains 3D models. |
| Xmdv | okc | ASCII file containing columns of data. |
