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| Thumbs Up! | A must-have. (You'll notice this program keeps appearing over and over again in multiple categories!). Blender will visualize almost anything, and it's useful for interchanging file formats too. It is extensible with Python scripts, and there is a large library of existing scripts and plug-ins. | | Thumbs Up! | Another must-have for any kind of scientific work. ParaView is smart and powerful. It's closely associated with the VTK file formats, but it'll read almost anything. It's an essential part of the mesh file validation process, if ParaView will read your file it'll open in a lot of other places too. Installs cleanly as a Windows binary. | | Thumbs Up! | If you're doing any kind of development as a part of your workflow, PyVista is absolutely the fastest way to visualize your results, and it's great for one-offs and any kind of exploratory work. To get a mesh to display, you open your file with mesh = pv.read() and display it with mesh.plot(). It's that easy. PyVista is super-smart, it'll do a lot of work under the covers and save you a lot of time. | | Thumbs Up! | Developed in the National Labs, this is a supercomputer visualization tool. There's a version of it available on the PC, but it's buggy and crashes a lot. Nevertheless there's so much simulation software written for VTK, that it becomes another must-have. If you're rolling your own, you might want to use PyVista. It wraps VTK and other tools too, so you have flexibility in the areas where VTK doesn't do so well. |
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