What is Tecplot?
This guide summarizes the most important information about Tecplot at RWTH, including product description, licensing, support, and training offers.
General Information
Tecplot is the standard tool for professional post-processing, able to handle large amounts of data and very large data sets, which typically arise in simulations from the CFD as well as FEA area, or from measurements, such as those from wind tunnels or PIV. Typical fields of work are fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, geosciences or acoustics.
Important software features are:
- Import of all common data formats (Fluent, CGNS, OpenFOAM, Excel, Abaqus, ...)
- Export (images, videos) in the highest quality (publications)
- Easy comparison of data from any source (simulation with experiment, Simulation Solver 1 with Simulation Solver 2, ...)
- Fast generation of plots through interactivity
- Available with same GUI on Windows, Linux and Mac OS
- Creat reports using multi-page layout
- Plots in all graphical modes: 3D, 2D, 1D (lines, bars, ...), polar, sketches
- Many types of animation with easy creation of videos in different formats
- Addition of graphical elements to plots (arrows, boxes, circles, texts, ...)
- Isosurfaces, intersections, streamlines, vectors, particles
- CFD analysis: streaklines, pathlines, integrals, vortex cores, mesh quality
- Full automation possible with Python or macros
- Extraction of data parts using various tools and filters, export of subsets
Further information can be found at Tecplot.
License Information
Network licenses
Tecplot is available as a network license via the Software Shop. To ensure fair use, concurrent license usage is limited to the number of licenses purchased. Access to the licenses is only possible from the IP address ranges provided to us and from the RWTH computing cluster using the cluster accounts specified to us. These must be communicated to us when purchasing new licenses or extending existing licenses.
Users who want to use Tecplot without a network connection (for conferences, seminars, home-use,...) can borrow a license temporarily from the network using the "Borrow Function". Help on how to do this can be found in Tecplot under Help/License Roaming.
Single user licenses
In addition to network licenses, single-user licenses are also available through the Software Shop. These licenses can only be installed on a single device.
Tecplot for teaching
If you would like to use Tecplot in the context of a course, please contact us at servicedesk@itc.rwth-aachen.de
Support
Technical support for all applications is included in the Tecplot licenses of the RWTH.
Tecplot Team Europe (Genias Graphics) is available as the primary point of contact during regular business hours for all Tecplot-related questions.
For urgent questions outside of regular business hours, it is also possible to contact Tecplot Support in the USA.
The contact details for support can be found at https://www.tecplot.com/support/
Training & Resources
Free Training
Free Tecplot trainings are available to all interested persons at RWTH Aachen University:
- For Tecplot beginners, who would like to get to know Tecplot in order to be able to use the software quickly and efficiently after an individual introductory training.
- For experienced users who have specific questions about particular topics, who want to find out if there are possibilities to optimize or automate processes (Python) or who simply want to improve their skills.
The content and duration of the courses are individually tailored to the needs of the participants and can be freely planned. If you are interested, please contact:
Ms. Beate Nirschl, Tel. +49 (0)9402 948017 or Email: b.nirschl@tecplot.com
Mr. Jens Warkall, Tel. +49 (0)9402 948020 or Email: j.warkall@tecplot.com
Additional Resources
Please also feel free to make use of the opportunity to obtain a free Tecplot certificate. More information can be found at: www.tecplot.com/support/tecplot-training/360cert/
Additional information about Tecplot as well as a variety of recorded webinars on different topics can be found at https://www.tecplot.com/getting-started-tecplot-360/
