{"id":167110,"date":"2023-04-05T14:32:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T14:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-can-i-import-a-large-number-of-points-into-cfd-post-and-then-export-them-along-with-required-variable-data\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:27:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:27:56","slug":"how-can-i-import-a-large-number-of-points-into-cfd-post-and-then-export-them-along-with-required-variable-data","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-can-i-import-a-large-number-of-points-into-cfd-post-and-then-export-them-along-with-required-variable-data\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I import a large number of points into CFD-Post, and then export them along with required variable data?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you do the following:  1) Import your data points (as a .csv file) as a Polyline 2) Do this by LocationPolyline and on the pop up panel choose Method From File and then select your .csv file.   3) With this imported now create a point cloud from your Polyline.   4) So LocationPoint Cloud and on the pop up panel choose Location Polyline 1 (or whatever you called it) and Set Reduction to Reduction Factor and Choose a Factor of 1.  This should give you the set of points to export variable on. 5) Now just use the FileExportExport and for Location, choose the Point Cloud 1 (or whatever you called it).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-167110","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-19-1","topic-tag-cfd-post","topic-tag-fluid-dynamics","topic-tag-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["5\/4\/2023 20:20"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_author_ip":["209.182.204.162"],"_btv_view_count":["3175"],"siebel_km_number":["2050652"],"product_version":["19.1"],"km_published_date":["2017-07-10T00:00:00.000Z"],"family":["Fluid Dynamics"],"application_name":["CFD-Post"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/167110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/167110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}