<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Marissa,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">IIRC support for FLASH _part_ files was never added to VisIt. You could try using Python and h5py to extract the particle positions to a text file and read them in that way (which I think would be Point3D). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The yt project has native support for FLASH _part_ files, by the way:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://yt-project.org/docs/dev/examining/loading_data.html#flash-data" class="">http://yt-project.org/docs/dev/examining/loading_data.html#flash-data</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Let me know if you have any more questions. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">John</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 4, 2017, at 12:08 PM, Marissa Adams <<a href="mailto:madams@pas.rochester.edu" class="">madams@pas.rochester.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Hi all,<br class=""><br class="">What file format do you typically open the FLASH </span><font face="monospace, monospace" class="">_part_</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""> files in using VisIt? I have tried both the FLASH option and Point3D and VisIt dislikes both file format suggestions.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Thanks for your time,<br class="">Marissa<br class=""></font><br class=""><br class=""></div><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><font size="1" face="monospace, monospace" class=""><span style="" class="">Marissa Adams <font size="1" class="">E-mail:<a class=""> </a><a href="mailto:madams@pas.rochester.edu" target="_blank" class="">madams@pas.rochester.edu</a></font><br class="">PhD Student Ph: (585) 402-5779</span></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><font size="1" face="monospace, monospace" class=""><span style="" class="">University of Rochester Website: <a href="http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~madams/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~madams/</a></span></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><font size="1" face="monospace, monospace" class=""><span style="" class="">Department of Physics & Astronomy</span></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><font size="1" face="monospace, monospace" class=""><span style="" class="">108 Bausch & Lomb Hall<br class="">P.O. Box 270171</span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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