# VERDI 1.4: how to extract hourly data
**URL:** https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/verdi-1-4-how-to-extract-hourly-data/1137
**Category:** VERDI
**Created:** [November 22, 2019, 9:24am UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/verdi-1-4-how-to-extract-hourly-data/1137 "2019-11-22T09:24:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@nguyennhathachi](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/nguyennhathachi)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2019, 9:24am UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/verdi-1-4-how-to-extract-hourly-data/1137/1 "2019-11-22T09:24:55Z")
Dear colleagues,
I am trying to use VERDI to read CAMx outputs, grided data with 754 grid cells. A problem that I can not solve and would like to get your advices here is that
- How to extract the ASCII with hourly data for every grid cells?
When I use PAVE 2.3, it can export the ASCII data for hourly. But VERDI I could not found that function.
Thanks!
Ha Chi
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### Author:  [@nguyennhathachi](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/nguyennhathachi)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2019, 10:03am UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/verdi-1-4-how-to-extract-hourly-data/1137/2 "2019-11-22T10:03:28Z")
Please let me explain more clearly.
In Pave 2.3, I can export ASCII file for all grided cells and all time steps in 1 ASCII file. But for VERDI, only 1 time step can be exported in 1 ASCII file, if I use “export as Image/GIS”. I have 720 time steps, so I want to export all in 1 file. Pave 2.3 now has no install file, so that I have to go with VERDI, but stuck with this problem.
Please give me some ideas to deal with it.
Thanks!
Ha Chi
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### Author:  [@cjcoats](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/cjcoats)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/verdi-1-4-how-to-extract-hourly-data/1137/3 "2019-11-22T15:24:44Z")
Instead, use M3Tools program _m3totxt_. See
[https://www.cmascenter.org/ioapi/documentation/all\_versions/html/M3TOTXT.html](https://www.cmascenter.org/ioapi/documentation/all_versions/html/M3TOTXT.html)
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### Author:  [@nguyennhathachi](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/nguyennhathachi)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2019, 3:24am UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/verdi-1-4-how-to-extract-hourly-data/1137/4 "2019-11-23T03:24:46Z")
Thank you cjcoats, seems that M3Tools need to install in Lunix system. VERDI 1.4 is window version. Anyway, I will try with M3Tools instead. Thanks again!
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### Author:  [@cjcoats](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/cjcoats)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2019, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/verdi-1-4-how-to-extract-hourly-data/1137/5 "2019-11-23T20:27:05Z")
You **can** build I/O API and M3Tools under CygWin for Windows – see the instructions on configuring CygWin and then building the I/O API in
[https://www.cmascenter.org/ioapi/documentation/all\_versions/html/AVAIL.html#win64](https://www.cmascenter.org/ioapi/documentation/all_versions/html/AVAIL.html#win64)
Because of that environment, there are some _Makefile_ modifications that are needed. They are documented above…