# Plot3d ASCII format

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plot3d-ascii-format/2552
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [September 12, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plot3d-ascii-format/2552 "2019-09-12T20:20:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![MAGAN\_SINGH](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/magan_singh/32/1978_2.png) [@MAGAN\_SINGH](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/MAGAN_SINGH)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plot3d-ascii-format/2552/1 "2019-09-12T20:20:32Z")

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I am learning Paraview, I imported plot3d binary files successfully but I have also other data in ASCII file for ARA M100 wing surface that comprises index values(I, J, K) and corresponding (x,y,z) coordinate of each grid points on surface, properties(dn, P/Pinf, T/Tinf, Cf, Ch, Yplus, Cfx, Cfy, Cfz) on each grid points given column-wise for five segments of a grid surface(J0)[cfl3d.prout](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/yKlnzHWk4sxY6QIV4QBESlXFlVx.prout) (2.3 MB).  
For a quick look at the format of data, please see this pdf[m100.pdf](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/wMvjdclzhY63H7DhppbNLrAgiAT.pdf) (235.4 KB).  
When I am importing this file using plot3d-reader, it is showing error “Could not determine if the file has Fortran byte counts”  
Please give some suggestions for visualization of properties on the wing surface.

Thank You  
Magan

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### Author: ![Kenichiro-Yoshimi](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/ecc23a/32.png) [@Kenichiro-Yoshimi](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Kenichiro-Yoshimi)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2019, 10:14am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plot3d-ascii-format/2552/2 "2019-09-13T10:14:43Z")

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A workaround to achieve what you want is to convert your csv file into a tecplot file with python. See the attached script.  
[cfl3dcsv\_tecplot.7z](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/oxVxE3vmtS7yQCoNFRqQZg1lj2C.7z) (1.1 MB)

 ![t_tinf](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6befda355615cde08be685edbfa50a1b7707c28c.png)

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### Author: ![MAGAN\_SINGH](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/magan_singh/32/1978_2.png) [@MAGAN\_SINGH](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/MAGAN_SINGH)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plot3d-ascii-format/2552/3 "2019-09-13T17:21:03Z")

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Thank you so much for your detailed response, I will learn python and further extend it for my other simulation results.