# How does ParaView interprete the boundary fields of OpenFoam data?

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-does-paraview-interprete-the-boundary-fields-of-openfoam-data/9463
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [April 19, 2022, 12:18pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-does-paraview-interprete-the-boundary-fields-of-openfoam-data/9463 "2022-04-19T12:18:15Z")
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### Author: ![ckpark96](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/ckpark96/32/8553_2.png) [@ckpark96](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ckpark96)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2022, 12:18pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-does-paraview-interprete-the-boundary-fields-of-openfoam-data/9463/1 "2022-04-19T12:18:15Z")

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Hi all,  
I am trying to understand how ParaView imports the data from OpenFoam data files.  
The order of points/cells seems to follow the ‘points’ and ‘cellZones’ files from OpenFoam but it seems like the boundary fields are missing.  
Does anyone know how I can look into the values of parameters of these boundary fields in ParaView?

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### Author: ![Kenichiro-Yoshimi](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/ecc23a/32.png) [@Kenichiro-Yoshimi](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Kenichiro-Yoshimi)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 2:36am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-does-paraview-interprete-the-boundary-fields-of-openfoam-data/9463/2 "2022-04-20T02:36:01Z")

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In the **Mesh Regions** panel, check the names of the boundaries you wish to load so that you can distinguish them and see the values there.

 ![mesh_regions](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/c/cd77932e4c91851e3f9d1f19cc4a64fdd42d8e63.png)

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### Author: ![ckpark96](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/ckpark96/32/8553_2.png) [@ckpark96](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ckpark96)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 12:53pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-does-paraview-interprete-the-boundary-fields-of-openfoam-data/9463/3 "2022-04-20T12:53:02Z")

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That is such a simple solution. I completely overlooked that.  
Thanks so much for the solution!