# Open a Tecplot file .dat with block and cell centered formats

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/open-a-tecplot-file-dat-with-block-and-cell-centered-formats/5413
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [September 23, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/open-a-tecplot-file-dat-with-block-and-cell-centered-formats/5413 "2020-09-23T16:23:23Z")
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### Author: ![Gianluca](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/82dd89/32.png) [@Gianluca](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Gianluca)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/open-a-tecplot-file-dat-with-block-and-cell-centered-formats/5413/1 "2020-09-23T16:23:23Z")

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Hi, I am trying to open a Tecplot file .dat in attachment through ParaView 5.4.1.  
It is a sphere with triangular mesh and it is printed by the CFD solver with datapacing=block and with a varlocation=cellcentered formats.

By searching in the web I found that a first possible step is to remove the line of the TITLE, as done for the other attached files momentum\_0; but unfortunately it doesn’t work.  
The main difference between the two files is the format of momentum\_0 which is datapacking=point, thus in each line there are all the variables for each nodes; but I cannot modify the printing setup in the CFD solver.

Do you know if there is a way to open this Tecplot file type with datapacing=block and varlocation=cellcentered formats through ParaView? I also tried to use the Cell Center filter.

Thank you in advance,  
Gianluca

[momentum\_0.tec](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/6gygY05X9IfV6TvFuY7lT7gAzpf.tec) (33.3 KB) [momentum\_0\_modified.dat](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/rbj6Vz1SCl92dsPFvFt8Hu8dsc9.dat) (33.2 KB)  
[sfera.gts01\_00005.dat](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/7LbO6uOH8CO7V7uRPhVbOxINdtw.dat) (1.6 MB)

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### Author: ![Gianluca](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/82dd89/32.png) [@Gianluca](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Gianluca)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/open-a-tecplot-file-dat-with-block-and-cell-centered-formats/5413/2 "2020-09-26T13:19:15Z")

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By asking to a CFD professor he answered me to delete the spaces in the TITLE line, to put ZONE T=“FETri” between the quotes and to download the last ParaView version 5.8 ( I used 5.4 before) and now it works.  
Bye