1 Get the Most Out of Tecplot 360 EX with Overset Grids Best Practices and Upcoming FeaturesScott Fowler, Product Manager Scott Imlay PhD, Chief Technology Officer

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4 What is Tecplot 360 EX Tecplot 360 EX is our most significant update since 2003 New GUI technology Faster load and processing speeds Focus on ease of use New interface on Mac and Linux

5 New Interface Dockable side and tool bars Pages and Macro PanelsRight-click context menus

6 Controlling Plot Style in 360 EXContext Menu Onscreen Context Menus Zone Style Dialog improvements Zone Style

7 Slicing Design in Tecplot 360 EXSurface Slices Slices Volume slices Surface slices Surfaces of Volumes Arbitrary Slices Extraction via right-click Arbitrary Slices

8 Using Pages in 360 EX Pages are like SlidesCan be used to create reports and presentations

9 New Subzone Load-on-Demand PLT Format183M Cell CFD++ Solution *.szplt 23X Faster! 93% Less RAM 40% File compression *.plt Dell Precision Laptop Quad Core 16GB RAM

10 How Does SZL Work? Example 2D Contour LineCurrent Methodologies require loading data for zone For Large data loading can be time intensive Domain can be indexed Decomposition of domain into smaller subdomains These subdomains can be indexed Data Required for Line 5/16 of total data Loading time reduced Memory requirements reduced

11 Tips & Tricks

12 Tips & Tricks Mouse Shortcuts ‘O’ key to reset the center of rotationMiddle mouse click to redraw Rotate with Ctrl+Right mouse Translate with Right mouse Zoom with Middle mouse Use a 3D Mouse! (Windows only)

13 Tips & Tricks Use the PLT or SZL file formats to: Reduce File SizeReduce memory footprint Decrease time to load & render data For a 263 million element dataset, rendering a slice: File type File size RAM Time Conversion Time (m:ss) Plot3D 21.9Gb 3,500 Mb 8.6s N/A SZL 13.4Gb 324Mb 5.4s 6:54 PLT 13.1Gb 725Mb 5.9s 2:32

14 Tips & Tricks Update to the latest release for improved performanceQ-Criterion calculation is over 3x faster Iso-surface rendering is 10% faster Plot3D loader now handles 64-bit data files* Product Data File Type Size Max RAM (Gb) Max CPU Time to Calculate Q-Criterion Time to render Q = 0 Total Time Tecplot 360 EX Plot3D 50,000,000 28 100% 01:35.9 00:39.2 02:15.1 Tecplot Tecplot Binary (PLT) 22 25% 04:08.9 00:44.9 04:53.8 *Support for Plot3D continuation markers available early 2017.

15 Use Plot Approximations to Improve Interactive PerformanceTips & Tricks Use Plot Approximations to Improve Interactive Performance

16 Call Technical Support!Tips & Tricks Call Technical Support!

17 Overset Specific Tips

18 Use Value Blanking Use the Quick Macro Panel for common settings

19 Use Value Blanking Know the Blanking types Primary Value All cornersAny corner

20 Use Value Blanking

21 Easily Step Through IJK-Planes using Slices

22 Extract a Velocity ProfileCalculate the velocity vectors Extract Subzone to extract values within the boundary layer Plot results in XY Line Plot

23 The Power of Quick MacrosQuick Access to common tasks Reduce click-fatigue Accomplish work not possible in the user interface

24 What’s coming in 2017: Python API SZL Server In-situ SZL TecIO reading .szplt files

25 Python API Accelerate your scripting Available early 2017

26 SZL Server Load SZL format data files from a remote machineIn Beta right now Available early 2017

27 In-situ SZL Use TECIO to write out a fraction of the volume dataReduces the impact of the I/O bottleneck Unique in that it writes out volume cells Learn more on Thursday

28 Read binary data files TECIO (reads SZL files only) Python APITecplot Add-On Developer’s Kit (C and FORTRAN)

29 Tecplot Chorus Tecplot Chorus is for engineers who need to analyze results of multiple simulations Design space exploration Trade studies Comparative analysis

30 Tecplot Chorus

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