# Generating Hexagonal Mesh

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/generating-hexagonal-mesh/4543
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** vtk
**Created:** [June 8, 2020, 9:05pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/generating-hexagonal-mesh/4543 "2020-06-08T21:05:55Z")
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### Author: ![Yesim](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yesim](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Yesim)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2020, 9:05pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/generating-hexagonal-mesh/4543/1 "2020-06-08T21:05:55Z")

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Hi all,  
I wonder if there is a way to generate vtk files to be viewed in ParaView for hexagonal meshes and how can I do it?  
Thanks in advance

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### Author: ![tomrobin.teschner](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b487fb/32.png) [@tomrobin.teschner](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/tomrobin.teschner)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/generating-hexagonal-mesh/4543/2 "2020-06-08T21:22:44Z")

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yep, you can always create polyhedral cells (though you may want to write those in the xml-based vtu file format). Funnily enough, I just posted a very similar question (on mixed meshes containing both polyhedral and standard cells) just a couple of minutes before your question, that discussion may be also useful for you (if somone answers that is).