BLOT produces mesh plots with various representations of the analysis output variables. Pathlines of analysis variables can also be drawn on the mesh. BLOT's features include element selection by material, element birth and death, multiple views for combining several displays on each plot, symmetry mirroring, and node and element numbering. BLOT can also produce X-Y curve plots of the analysis variables. Multiple simultaneous data readers and viewers are supported.
Tools are available to view the mesh, element blocks, side sets, and node sets.
Tools presently available for scalar data are paint cells, multi-material map, external edges, external faces, slice plane, iso lines, iso surface, and iso volume. Tools presently available for vector data are hedge hog, streamlines, and particle advection. They allow the user to add simple annotations to the viewer. It is a solid-modeler based preprocessor that meshes volume and surface solid models for finite element analysis. A combination of techniques including paving, mapping, sweeping, and various other algorithms being developed are available for discretizing the geometry into a finite element mesh.