# Exodus import, toggle by element type

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/exodus-import-toggle-by-element-type/14138
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Tags:** exodus
**Created:** [March 12, 2024, 3:53pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/exodus-import-toggle-by-element-type/14138 "2024-03-12T15:53:44Z")
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### Author: ![Andy\_Bauer](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/andy_bauer/32/5442_2.png) [@Andy\_Bauer](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Andy_Bauer)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2024, 4:00pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/exodus-import-toggle-by-element-type/14138/3 "2024-03-13T16:00:14Z")

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I wanted to try developing a Python Plugin so I wrote one for this functionality. I tried to document it some. It’s based off of [get all cells using a certain point id - #7 by boonth](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/get-all-cells-using-a-certain-point-id/4371/7).

I didn’t add in all the cell types but if you look at the bottom of the script you can see how to add in more cell types. Also, I couldn’t figure out how to add in a boolean check box for filter input so I just used integer inputs where 0 or no value means not to extract blocks of a certain cell type.  
[processMultiBlocks.py](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/rYqVzuOtP3EtzumPL9fq5aqn2xG.py) (6.5 KB)

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