# getting polyhedral data into openfoam

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/getting-polyhedral-data-into-openfoam/9403
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [April 11, 2022, 2:56pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/getting-polyhedral-data-into-openfoam/9403 "2022-04-11T14:56:59Z")
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### Author: ![garcfd](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ccd318/32.png) [@garcfd](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/garcfd)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2022, 2:56pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/getting-polyhedral-data-into-openfoam/9403/1 "2022-04-11T14:56:59Z")

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I have finally created a polyhedral cell in VTK format version 5.0 (wow!)  
but now I am trying to figure out how to get this into openFoam format?  
The vtkUnstructuredToFoam does not work on the modern VTK files.  
I am guessing that converting to prostar (starccm?) format is the best bet,  
since converters to/from openfoam already exist for that. Any suggestions?