Table

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Tables are the basical metadata system in Dynamo. They are just matrices that describe the properties of sets of particles. The property coded on each column is fixed. dapropos table will give you a list of basic commands that you can use for table manipulation.

Format convention in a table

Template:Table Convention

The convention can be consulted each time by the command dthelp


Reading and writing tables

Tables are customarily stored as text files with extension '.tbl'.

Tables can be read and write into the matlab worspace with the standard commands dwrite and dread.

For specially long tables, you can use the extension '.tbl', which will write the files in binary formays

Visualization of tables

dinfo

dtplot

dtshow

dtview

Table manipulation

Creating tables

Selection of parts of a table

Conversion tools for other software packages