# How to plot contour stress for finite element in paraview?

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-plot-contour-stress-for-finite-element-in-paraview/12159
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** vtk
**Created:** [May 26, 2023, 10:13am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-plot-contour-stress-for-finite-element-in-paraview/12159 "2023-05-26T10:13:47Z")
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### Author: ![raja](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9de0a6/32.png) [@raja](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/raja)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2023, 10:13am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-plot-contour-stress-for-finite-element-in-paraview/12159/1 "2023-05-26T10:13:47Z")

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Contour stress plot in paraview

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### Author: ![FEngineer](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/5f8ce5/32.png) [@FEngineer](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/FEngineer)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2023, 11:08am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-plot-contour-stress-for-finite-element-in-paraview/12159/2 "2023-05-26T11:08:17Z")

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Once you have the data with the stress field imported to ParaView in a proper format, just select the stresses from this list:

![list](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6a361675b56abee69431cbc99a30761eed657cfd.png)

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### Author: ![SebastianSalazar42](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@SebastianSalazar42](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/SebastianSalazar42)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2023, 2:26pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-plot-contour-stress-for-finite-element-in-paraview/12159/3 "2023-05-30T14:26:04Z")

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It’s like FEngineer said. If you share your data here, probably we can show you exactly how.