# ParaView Support

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## [Packaging Paraview superbuild with custom python packages](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/packaging-paraview-superbuild-with-custom-python-packages/11043)

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**Author:** [@jjw](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jjw)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 24, 2023, 1:46am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/packaging-paraview-superbuild-with-custom-python-packages/11043 "2023-04-24T01:46:51Z")

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Hi all, I’m currently trying to build a paraview distribution package that includes some python modules, e.g. pydicom, nutils. How should I configure the cmake? I followed the instructions on gitlab page, but it seems …

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## [ParaView 5.11-0 RC1 binary fails on CentOS 7: GLIBC\_2.25 not found](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-11-0-rc1-binary-fails-on-centos-7-glibc-2-25-not-found/10263)

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**Author:** [@jmensmann](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jmensmann)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [February 7, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-11-0-rc1-binary-fails-on-centos-7-glibc-2-25-not-found/10263 "2023-02-07T16:12:11Z")

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Is CentOS 7 still a supported platform for the binary release? /test/ParaView-5.11.0-RC1-MPI-Linux-Python3.9-x86\_64/bin$ ./paraview /test/ParaView-5.11.0-RC1-MPI-Linux-Python3.9-x86\_64/bin/paraview-real: /lib64/libc.so.…

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## [Paraivew on M1 Chip](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraivew-on-m1-chip/11534)

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**Author:** [@ahandeep\_manna](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ahandeep_manna)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [April 24, 2023, 1:43am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraivew-on-m1-chip/11534 "2023-04-24T01:43:28Z")

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Hi, I’m using Paraview 5.10.0 on my Mac Book pro with the M1 chip. This version seems to function , however erraticaly where regular interval it cannot open an files although the UI seems to run. Can anyone help me rega…

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## [Latex compiler in Paraview](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/latex-compiler-in-paraview/10727)

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**Author:** [@Captain\_Convergence](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Captain_Convergence)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [April 24, 2023, 1:41am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/latex-compiler-in-paraview/10727 "2023-04-24T01:41:53Z")

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Dear support, I have been playing with the compilation of different versions of Paraview and now it seems that my latex interpreter stopped working. It seems that it comes from a shared configuration among the Paraview …

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## [VTK Commom Core Error while building Paraview from source](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vtk-commom-core-error-while-building-paraview-from-source/11841)

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**Author:** [@Muhammad\_Saad\_Atique](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Muhammad_Saad_Atique)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [April 24, 2023, 1:40am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vtk-commom-core-error-while-building-paraview-from-source/11841 "2023-04-24T01:40:46Z")

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Hi, I am getting this error when I build Paraview from source. I was able to build it last week and even run custom applications. I had to build it again due to some reason but getting this error now \[198/21274\] Genera…

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## [ParaView crashing on windows 11 while opening large file](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashing-on-windows-11-while-opening-large-file/11020)

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**Author:** [@chichi72](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/chichi72)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [April 24, 2023, 1:19am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashing-on-windows-11-while-opening-large-file/11020 "2023-04-24T01:19:57Z")

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Hello, I am opening this topic because I am trying to load a large file (278MB) into paraview 5.9.1 on windows 11 and it keeps crashing. I’ve read some similar issues here and so I checked the event viewer and the foll…

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## [Method to Wrap or Encypt Python Scripts for Paraview Plugin](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/method-to-wrap-or-encypt-python-scripts-for-paraview-plugin/11456)

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**Author:** [@Wenjie\_LU](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Wenjie_LU)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 24, 2023, 12:55am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/method-to-wrap-or-encypt-python-scripts-for-paraview-plugin/11456 "2023-04-24T00:55:51Z")

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Hi everyone! Recently I’ve created a reader\*\*(Python Plugin)\*\* but I could not find a proper way to wrap or encrypt the script to make sure that the wrapped python plugin could be well running in Paraview and other user…

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## [How to pass multiple arguments to ParaView extra CMake arguments using superbuild?](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-pass-multiple-arguments-to-paraview-extra-cmake-arguments-using-superbuild/11883)

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**Author:** [@robertsawko](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/robertsawko)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 24, 2023, 12:16am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-pass-multiple-arguments-to-paraview-extra-cmake-arguments-using-superbuild/11883 "2023-04-24T00:16:44Z")

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A colleague and I are trying to build a containarised version of ParaView. We use Alpine OS, but we came across some issues with netcdf and cgns incompatibility. We thought to switch it off, but we are having problems sp…

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## [Building Paraview : ninja:build stopped](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/building-paraview-ninja-build-stopped/11788)

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**Author:** [@apple55688](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/apple55688)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 23, 2023, 8:57pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/building-paraview-ninja-build-stopped/11788 "2023-04-23T20:57:54Z")

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Hello ! I am currently attempting to build ParaView in Windows10 on my laptop by following \[Getting Started compilation guide\]. I installed vs2019 and qt5.15.2. I run cmake successfully,but it is failed when I run …

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## [Build Error](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/build-error/11771)

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**Author:** [@Muhammad\_Saad\_Atique](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Muhammad_Saad_Atique)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 23, 2023, 8:55pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/build-error/11771 "2023-04-23T20:55:02Z")

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Hi, I am building Paraview on Mac using this. When I run cmake -GNinja -DPARAVIEW\_USE\_PYTHON=ON -DPARAVIEW\_USE\_QT=ON -DPARAVIEW\_USE\_MPI=OFF -DVTK\_SMP\_IMPLEMENTATION\_TYPE=TBB -DCMAKE\_BUILD\_TYPE=Release …/paraview I ge…

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## [Failed to Create Object Error](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/failed-to-create-object-error/11702)

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**Author:** [@Joshua\_Vazquez](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Joshua_Vazquez)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 23, 2023, 8:47pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/failed-to-create-object-error/11702 "2023-04-23T20:47:27Z")

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I’m using the binary version for Windows from paraview.org 5.11.0 I loaded my python plugin into ParaView without any problems but when I try to load a data file using the plugin I get a “Failed to create object” error…

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## [Jagged plot when using clip from particles](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/jagged-plot-when-using-clip-from-particles/11949)

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**Author:** [@30Kaz](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/30Kaz)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 21, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/jagged-plot-when-using-clip-from-particles/11949 "2023-04-21T16:29:57Z")

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I am trying to plot a velocity field(right) from particles(left), where I provisionally used box clip from table to points. However, the graph is a bit jagged, and I want it to be smoother, perhaps tweaking something abo…

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## [How to display particles entirely on a slice?](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-display-particles-entirely-on-a-slice/11916)

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**Author:** [@lowentropy](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/lowentropy)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [April 21, 2023, 9:31am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-display-particles-entirely-on-a-slice/11916 "2023-04-21T09:31:50Z")

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I have read the topic of how to display particles on a slice?How to display lagrangian particles on a slice? Now I have used Clip filters for my visulization. But i notice the particles(draw with pointgaussian) can not …

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## [Sum a variable along the z axis](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/sum-a-variable-along-the-z-axis/11944)

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**Author:** [@Huan\_Zhang](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Huan_Zhang)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 21, 2023, 5:52am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/sum-a-variable-along-the-z-axis/11944 "2023-04-21T05:52:10Z")

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Dear all, I have a 3d domain in paraview. Now I would like to sum or integrate a variable along the z axis, and then display the results on a slice, e.g., slice z= 0. Is there any way to achieve this? Thanks, Huan

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## [Point Cloud to Depth Image](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/point-cloud-to-depth-image/11938)

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**Author:** [@Pelle\_Thielmann](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Pelle_Thielmann)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 20, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/point-cloud-to-depth-image/11938 "2023-04-20T16:42:00Z")

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Hi everyone My task/problem is the follwoing: I got pointclouds from lidar scans. Each scan is like a picture you could say (scanner is not moving, just take 5 seconds scan time and gives me the pointcloud). Render …

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## [One color between ticks](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/one-color-between-ticks/11929)

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**Author:** [@ncarm8na](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ncarm8na)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 20, 2023, 2:44pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/one-color-between-ticks/11929 "2023-04-20T14:44:13Z")

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Hi I need to edit my color bar for analysis in mining stress models. Specify i need to visualize just one color between each ticks. I already select the ticks manualy in use custom labels like: But, i see to much co…

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## [Headless Paraview Rendering using Ospray](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/headless-paraview-rendering-using-ospray/11924)

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**Author:** [@Abbas](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Abbas)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 19, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/headless-paraview-rendering-using-ospray/11924 "2023-04-19T14:29:45Z")

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Hi there, I am trying to figure out the workflow for getting paraview to run on the cloud. I intend to use purely command line interface to eventually generate and export .png images that I can download. Now my questio…

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## [How to automatically open a .nii image file when opening the paraview glance project?](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-automatically-open-a-nii-image-file-when-opening-the-paraview-glance-project/11925)

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**Author:** [@LEOleo](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/LEOleo)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 19, 2023, 8:38am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-automatically-open-a-nii-image-file-when-opening-the-paraview-glance-project/11925 "2023-04-19T08:38:35Z")

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We want to automatically open a .nii file for display when jumping to the paraview glance project from an interface. How can I do this?

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## [Error reading large VTK files in the Windows version](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-reading-large-vtk-files-in-the-windows-version/8199)

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**Author:** [@vmajor](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/vmajor)\
**Replies:** 22\
**Last updated:** [April 19, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-reading-large-vtk-files-in-the-windows-version/8199 "2023-04-19T00:39:00Z")

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I have large (3.5 Gb+) VTK files generated by our CFD software running on Ubuntu (WSL2 in Windows 11 in fact). Paraview 5.10.0-RC1 running on Ubuntu WSL2 opens the file correctly, albeit the Nvidia virtualised driver te…

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## [Friction coefficient along the wall](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/friction-coefficient-along-the-wall/11915)

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**Author:** [@xq520](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/xq520)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 18, 2023, 2:35pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/friction-coefficient-along-the-wall/11915 "2023-04-18T14:35:19Z")

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Hello, I want to calculate the wall friction coefficient. And repeat the following steps, but the result is wrong. Could someone give me more details? The file is attached. https://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/20…

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## [vector field visualisation](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vector-field-visualisation/11904)

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**Author:** [@Rigel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Rigel)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [April 18, 2023, 8:08am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vector-field-visualisation/11904 "2023-04-18T08:08:44Z")

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Hi, I am having problems to properly visualise a 3D vector (namely, the velocity) field in ParaView. If I select one of the components from the vector, I get the following view: However, if I create a new array usin…

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## [How to show the material numers in the grid?](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-show-the-material-numers-in-the-grid/11902)

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**Author:** [@zjqf](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/zjqf)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [April 18, 2023, 7:54am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-show-the-material-numers-in-the-grid/11902 "2023-04-18T07:54:03Z")

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I have a question about showing the material numbers. figure 1 and figure 2 are got by using VISIT software. As figure 2 shows, there are material number in the grids. I want to get the same figure by using Paravie…

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## [Which file I need to download and install for windows?](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/which-file-i-need-to-download-and-install-for-windows/11846)

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**Author:** [@Raj](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Raj)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [April 17, 2023, 10:34am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/which-file-i-need-to-download-and-install-for-windows/11846 "2023-04-17T10:34:03Z")

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Hi I am very new in ParaView. I have downloaded “ParaView-5.11.0-Windows-Python3.9-msvc2017-AMD64” but not finding any “.exe” file to be installed in windows. Please help.

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## [Create camera movement for animations in Python](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/create-camera-movement-for-animations-in-python/11869)

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**Author:** [@F42](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/F42)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 17, 2023, 8:04am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/create-camera-movement-for-animations-in-python/11869 "2023-04-17T08:04:37Z")

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Hello, I use the “interpolate cameras” feature and manually set 6 positions for the camera path in the GUI. However, the camera movements don’t show up in the python state file nor can I trace them. (I know this is to p…

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## [Render view does not run properly when building paraview by myself](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/render-view-does-not-run-properly-when-building-paraview-by-myself/11897)

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**Author:** [@zhe](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/zhe)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 16, 2023, 3:43pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/render-view-does-not-run-properly-when-building-paraview-by-myself/11897 "2023-04-16T15:43:53Z")

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Hello, ParaView experts: I try to build paraview by myself on MacBook M1. This is the branch that I used: commit 8255e0c6caaaceb73a1a2bfd4432028b8bd8678f (HEAD → master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) Merge: f43b1451af d…

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## [Paraview is closed by Windows 10](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-is-closed-by-windows-10/11870)

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**Author:** [@Sergey\_Kurchev](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Sergey_Kurchev)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [April 16, 2023, 1:36am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-is-closed-by-windows-10/11870 "2023-04-16T01:36:33Z")

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We are working on ESC with Windows 10. We launched a python file from a virtual environment with praview. The program returned an error: “(84.017s) \[paraview \]vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWin:680 ERR| vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow …

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## [I have been unable to see colors in Unity after exporting the file from ParaView to FBX format.](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/i-have-been-unable-to-see-colors-in-unity-after-exporting-the-file-from-paraview-to-fbx-format/11886)

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**Author:** [@devender\_r](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/devender_r)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 14, 2023, 3:55pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/i-have-been-unable-to-see-colors-in-unity-after-exporting-the-file-from-paraview-to-fbx-format/11886 "2023-04-14T15:55:54Z")

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I have been unable to see colors in Unity after exporting the file from ParaView to FBX format. Would you be able to assist me with this issue?

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## [Modify the position (or Coordinate) values of particles to exaggerate the displacements](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/modify-the-position-or-coordinate-values-of-particles-to-exaggerate-the-displacements/11866)

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**Author:** [@sangjun11316](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/sangjun11316)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 13, 2023, 11:19am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/modify-the-position-or-coordinate-values-of-particles-to-exaggerate-the-displacements/11866 "2023-04-13T11:19:56Z")

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I am visualizing my simulation results (which contain tones of particles) with ‘Point Gaussian’ in Paraview. I wrote the Lagacy VTK file in my C/C++ program, with the following structure. BINARY DATASET POLYDATA POINTS…

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## [Volume rendering not working on GUI version on the cluster](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/volume-rendering-not-working-on-gui-version-on-the-cluster/11864)

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**Author:** [@Abhijeet\_Chodankar](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Abhijeet_Chodankar)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 12, 2023, 10:25pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/volume-rendering-not-working-on-gui-version-on-the-cluster/11864 "2023-04-12T22:25:37Z")

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I started the gui session with 8 CPU cores and a 2 GPUs. When i try to view the results in volume rendering, paraview shuts down. I changed the rendering to GPU based instead of smart. I would appreciate help to resolve …

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## [Create 2D streamlines of periodic 3D dataset](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/create-2d-streamlines-of-periodic-3d-dataset/11863)

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**Author:** [@Boone](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Boone)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 12, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/create-2d-streamlines-of-periodic-3d-dataset/11863 "2023-04-12T15:03:57Z")

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Hi all, I am studying a downward facing step in 3D. The transverse direction is periodic. I would like to create 2D streamlines of my data. Currently I use: Temporal statistics to get a temporal average of the velocit…

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