Create Data Structures
Once an Altair Binary Format file is created and opened, the structure of the data contained within the file must be specified. The data structure and the data can be specified in one step or the data can be entered after the data structure is specified.
Component names and component data are separate. Each request in a datatype contains the same set of component names but has its own set of data corresponding to each name. For instance, for datatypes with requests each containing X, Y, and Z components, a separate set of XYZ data is assigned to each request.