Oommf vector data file to Matlab array

Imports Oommf vector data files saved as text into Matlab
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This is a function to import vector file archives from oommf into Matlab
arrays

Oommf vector files must be written with the output Specifications "text %g"
instead of the default "binary 4" option. And the type of grid must be
rectangular.

Vector files will be imported into the object "data" which will have this
fields:
field: current applied magnetic field
xmin: minimum x value
xnodes: number of nodes used along x
xmax: maximum x value
ymin: minimum y value
ynodes: number of nodes used along y
ymax: maximum y value
zmin: minimum z value
znodes: number of nodes used along z
zmax: maximum z value
datax: component x of vector on data file
datay: component y of vector on data file
dataz: component z of vector on data file
positionx: x positions of vectors
positiony: y positions of vectors
positionz: z positions of vectors

Example:
We have created with Oommf the archive test.omf (included on the zip). To open it into "data"

data=oommf2matlab('test.omf')

Now we can make a 2D vector field

quiver(data.positionx,data.positiony,data.datax,data.datay,0.5)

or calculate the divergence and plot it

div=divergence(data.positionx,data.positiony,data.datax,data.datay);
pcolor(data.positionx,data.positiony,div)
shading flat
colormap bone

For more examples, you can see my blog (look for Oommf, to be updated shortly):
http://thebrickinthesky.wordpress.com/

References:
[1] Oommf Micromagnetic simulator at NIST,
http://math.nist.gov/oommf/

This function was written by :
Héctor Corte
B.Sc. in physics 2010
M.Sc. in Complex physics systems 2012
Ph.D Student between NPL (National Physical Laboratory) and Royal Holloway University of London
London,
United kingdom.
Email: leo_corte@yahoo.es

Cite As

Héctor Corte (2024). Oommf vector data file to Matlab array (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/44187-oommf-vector-data-file-to-matlab-array), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R2011b
Compatible with any release
Platform Compatibility
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Version Published Release Notes
1.3.0.0

There was a problem with 3D data files that now is solved.

1.1.0.0

An updated version is now available. The older version scan line by line for the data and took 30 s to upload the test.omf file into Matlab, this version uses textscan()and takes only about 0.17 s.

1.0.0.0