# can.exo

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/can-exo/5919
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [November 28, 2020, 5:53am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/can-exo/5919 "2020-11-28T05:53:03Z")
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### Author: ![cbarring](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@cbarring](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cbarring)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2020, 5:53am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/can-exo/5919/1 "2020-11-28T05:53:03Z")

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Hi. I am using openFoam and in many of the plotting instructions it says “Open can.exo” What is can.exo? There is nothing the documentation or on cfdonline.

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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: [November 30, 2020, 9:46am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/can-exo/5919/2 "2020-11-30T09:46:14Z")

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It can be found here: [https://data.kitware.com/#item/5aff0a188d777f15ebe1e647](https://data.kitware.com/#item/5aff0a188d777f15ebe1e647)

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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: [November 30, 2020, 4:30pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/can-exo/5919/3 "2020-11-30T16:30:50Z")

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Another (and much easier) place to find can.exo is within ParaView. (I am assuming you are visualizing with ParaView, as you are on a ParaView support page. ) It is one of the examples. File/ Open/ Examples (upper left corner) (assuming you are not remote server).

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### Author: ![cbarring](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@cbarring](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cbarring)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/can-exo/5919/4 "2020-12-02T18:45:13Z")

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Thanks very much Walter.

I think that the source of my problem is that I am executing ParaView through openFoam. So to start ParaView, I enter paraFoam. I guess that paraFoam accesses all the openFoam data files and does not use a can.exo file. So I think the instructions are applicable to an openFoam user except the instructions involving the can.exo file.