# Abaqus Rainbow colormap

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/abaqus-rainbow-colormap/16444
**Category:** Tips and Tricks
**Created:** [April 9, 2025, 5:29am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/abaqus-rainbow-colormap/16444 "2025-04-09T05:29:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![GregVernon](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/gregvernon/32/1494_2.png) [@GregVernon](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/GregVernon)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2025, 5:29am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/abaqus-rainbow-colormap/16444/1 "2025-04-09T05:29:24Z")

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If you’ve ever found yourself needing to make a comparison plot between an Abaqus result and ParaView visualization, you’ve probably wanted to use the Abaqus rainbow “spectrum”. I’ve transcribed Abaqus’ rainbow spectrum into a ParaView colormap that you can import into ParaView:

[abaqus\_rainbow.json](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/xYzYrv7Olt8IQnQVFP0q6fEMPzt.json) (668 Bytes)

For example, one of these is an Abaqus result rendered in Abaqus/CAE, while the other is a result from a different solver rendered in ParaView.

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/3X/0/a/0a81e58db50a390233052dba741be867fb00950a.png)

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/3X/5/1/512cede746d9b2059e52218d9986c0844517777f.png)

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/abaqus-rainbow-colormap/16444/2 "2025-04-09T14:12:28Z")

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What do you think @wascott @cory.quammen ?

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### Author: ![cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/cory.quammen/32/11193_2.png) [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/abaqus-rainbow-colormap/16444/3 "2025-04-09T15:53:12Z")

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I think it’s a great Tip and Trick!

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/abaqus-rainbow-colormap/16444/4 "2025-04-09T16:20:37Z")

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I somehow think this was a feature request to include it in ParaView 🙂

Good tip and tricks indeed.

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### Author: ![wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/8e8cbc/32.png) [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/abaqus-rainbow-colormap/16444/5 "2025-04-09T16:37:02Z")

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Yep, great tip and trick.  
I’m good with it being included in ParaView, as long as the default page isn’t modified.

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### Author: ![wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/8e8cbc/32.png) [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/abaqus-rainbow-colormap/16444/6 "2025-04-09T16:37:19Z")

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Write it up, Sandia will fund it?

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### Author: ![GregVernon](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/gregvernon/32/1494_2.png) [@GregVernon](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/GregVernon)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/abaqus-rainbow-colormap/16444/7 "2025-04-10T16:47:03Z")

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Figured I’d go ahead and add an MR, if it’s useful.

[https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/merge\_requests/7255](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/merge_requests/7255)