# Exodus to .....
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/exodus-to/8953
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [February 10, 2022, 3:01pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/exodus-to/8953 "2022-02-10T15:01:57Z")
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### Author:  [@c0pleybob](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/c0pleybob)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2022, 3:01pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/exodus-to/8953/1 "2022-02-10T15:01:57Z")
New to the forum, so bear with me if this is a stupid question. I want to read Exodus results in, but we are on the hook to provide them in a palatable format to a third party that cannot read Exodus. I am thinking perhaps Nastran. Doable? Is there a better approach?
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2022, 1:43am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/exodus-to/8953/2 "2022-02-23T01:43:52Z")
Scrubbing email, I missed this. Sorry.
Oh, and welcome to the ParaView discourse community!
No clue with regards to the file formats you mention. May I recommend the VTK file formats? Documentation is on the VTK site. If you don’t see it, I can look further.
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### Author:  [@c0pleybob](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/c0pleybob)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2022, 8:02pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/exodus-to/8953/3 "2022-02-24T20:02:39Z")
Thanks. Looks pretty fully featured, but since the other end of the translation is intended to be a format that they use, VTK would just be an intermediate step. We are looking to go in one jump from point A (Exodus, which is an open source format from Sandia) to point B (Nastran, ABAQUS, …, something widely available). May just have to write it, as we already have a off-the-shelf Python API for Exodus.
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### Author:  [@todoooo](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/todoooo)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2022, 11:20pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/exodus-to/8953/4 "2022-02-24T23:20:05Z")
There isn’t a widely available FE results format. Why not ask your third party to download Paraview to view the VTK results files instead?