# Adding Scalar Data To Triangle Mesh
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/adding-scalar-data-to-triangle-mesh/3478
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [February 1, 2020, 1:45am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/adding-scalar-data-to-triangle-mesh/3478 "2020-02-01T01:45:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@dennis](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/dennis)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2020, 1:45am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/adding-scalar-data-to-triangle-mesh/3478/1 "2020-02-01T01:45:13Z")
Hi everyone,
I imagine this should be easy to do in ParaView, but I haven’t had any luck with it:
I have a set of files (one contains the geometry, another contains the connectivity, and another contains the scalar values that I would like to attach to the geometry). I’m able to create an object file from the geometry and connectivity files, and visualize the mesh in ParaView easily. But I don’t know how to attach my scalar data to the triangle points so I can visualize the mesh using different colormaps. Is this possible? How could I accomplish this?
Dennis
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### Author:  [@Yoshino](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Yoshino)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/adding-scalar-data-to-triangle-mesh/3478/2 "2020-02-02T02:19:09Z")
Certainly it is possible. Since ur able to visualize the mesh in PV, u can definitely attach the Scalar Data to your mesh as **DataAttribute** (In this case: PointData). Then select colormap as that Scalar in **Display** panel.
Just the same way u created the object file, I think.
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### Author:  [@dennis](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/dennis)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2020, 2:30am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/adding-scalar-data-to-triangle-mesh/3478/3 "2020-02-02T02:30:58Z")
Hi Yoshino,
Thanks for your response. How would I go about adding it as an DataAttribute? Is that a filter that I should apply? Because I dont see one. Or I’m I supposed to write a python script?
Thanks,
Dennis
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### Author:  [@Yoshino](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Yoshino)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2020, 7:59am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/adding-scalar-data-to-triangle-mesh/3478/4 "2020-02-02T07:59:14Z")
For me, I pre-processed my dataset and save as **.vtk** legacy format file([file-format.pdf](https://vtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/file-formats.pdf)) with **DataAttribute** in it.
U could read the PDF document first to have an overall view about attribute data.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2020, 3:03am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/adding-scalar-data-to-triangle-mesh/3478/5 "2020-02-03T03:03:08Z")
@dennis : Welcome to the community.
Please precise the format of each of your files.
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### Author:  [@dennis](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/dennis)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/adding-scalar-data-to-triangle-mesh/3478/6 "2020-02-04T19:41:21Z")
@mwestphal: Thanks for your willingness to help. I was able to associate the mesh points with my scalar data. My files were: geometry.txt (x,y,z comma separated floating point numbers), connectivity.txt (x,y, z comma separated integer values, each indexing to a specific point in the geometry file), and scalar data text file (floating point values associated with each point in the geometry). I wrote a c++ script that parsed the data and I saved it in .vtp format. I opened the file in Paraview and everything looked like it is supposed to.