# \[5.10\] How to disable automatic renaming of numbered variables into tensors
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/5-10-how-to-disable-automatic-renaming-of-numbered-variables-into-tensors/9162
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [March 11, 2022, 6:48am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/5-10-how-to-disable-automatic-renaming-of-numbered-variables-into-tensors/9162 "2022-03-11T06:48:20Z")
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### Author:  [@path](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/path)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2022, 6:48am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/5-10-how-to-disable-automatic-renaming-of-numbered-variables-into-tensors/9162/1 "2022-03-11T06:48:20Z")
Is there any way to disable the automatic renaming of numbered variables into tensors (e.g. var1, var2, var3 → var array with X, Y, Z components)? In my field, I work with these types of numbered variables which are strictly NOT tensors. They just happen to be differentiated by numbers.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2022, 6:53am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/5-10-how-to-disable-automatic-renaming-of-numbered-variables-into-tensors/9162/2 "2022-03-11T06:53:06Z")
If you name your components in your files, even “1”, “2,”,… they will not be renamed
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### Author:  [@path](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/path)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/5-10-how-to-disable-automatic-renaming-of-numbered-variables-into-tensors/9162/3 "2022-03-11T18:00:06Z")
Thank you for replying to my post. Is the automatic renaming completely unavoidable if the variables are labeled in the “variablename#” format with # being a number? Unfortunately, I can’t just name them “1”, “2”, etc. because my simulation tool doesn’t accept purely numeric names for the variables.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/5-10-how-to-disable-automatic-renaming-of-numbered-variables-into-tensors/9162/4 "2022-03-11T18:00:58Z")
Im talking about naming the components, not the variables.
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### Author:  [@path](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/path)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2022, 6:05pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/5-10-how-to-disable-automatic-renaming-of-numbered-variables-into-tensors/9162/5 "2022-03-11T18:05:02Z")
The variables are independent scalar variables. Paraview automatically converts/combines them into a tensor.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2022, 6:16pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/5-10-how-to-disable-automatic-renaming-of-numbered-variables-into-tensors/9162/6 "2022-03-11T18:16:38Z")
It doesn’t, your process does at some point.
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### Author:  [@path](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/path)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/5-10-how-to-disable-automatic-renaming-of-numbered-variables-into-tensors/9162/7 "2022-03-11T18:19:57Z")
Okay thank you for clarifying. I will check my simulation tool output settings.
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### Author:  [@path](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/path)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2022, 7:20pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/5-10-how-to-disable-automatic-renaming-of-numbered-variables-into-tensors/9162/8 "2022-03-11T19:20:27Z")
I checked my simulation tool settings and I’m quite certain that it does not convert the scalar variables into a tensor. When I use Paraview 5.9.0, it shows the variables as var1, var2, var3, var4, var5, and var6. On the other hand, Paraview 5.10 shows the behavior I described in the original post.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/5-10-how-to-disable-automatic-renaming-of-numbered-variables-into-tensors/9162/9 "2022-03-11T19:35:12Z")
can you share your data ?
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### Author:  [@path](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/path)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2022, 8:07pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/5-10-how-to-disable-automatic-renaming-of-numbered-variables-into-tensors/9162/10 "2022-03-11T20:07:00Z")
Here is an exodus file with variables `group1` to `group6`, and `pre1` to `pre8`. Paraview 5.10 displays the `group` variables as a single tensor with six components labeled XX, XY, etc. while 5.9.0 displays them individually with their original names.
[nts\_exodus.e](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/iCIDam3IoM7XfiRhvfc6xqgS3Kf.e) (665.3 KB)
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2022, 9:31pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/5-10-how-to-disable-automatic-renaming-of-numbered-variables-into-tensors/9162/11 "2022-03-11T21:31:26Z")
Related/same issue: [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/21238](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/21238)
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### Author:  [@path](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/path)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2022, 10:42pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/5-10-how-to-disable-automatic-renaming-of-numbered-variables-into-tensors/9162/12 "2022-03-11T22:42:36Z")
Thank you for the reference link. I’ll revert to using 5.9 for now until the issue is closed.
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2022, 3:12pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/5-10-how-to-disable-automatic-renaming-of-numbered-variables-into-tensors/9162/13 "2022-03-13T15:12:40Z")
The previous Exodus reader is available as a plugin in ParaView 5.10. Load the LegacyExodusReader plugin.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2022, 7:39am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/5-10-how-to-disable-automatic-renaming-of-numbered-variables-into-tensors/9162/14 "2022-03-14T07:39:46Z")
Thanks Cory, this issue slipped my mind.