# How to show the index of points or element？

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-show-the-index-of-points-or-element/15321
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** python, vtk
**Created:** [August 29, 2024, 3:19am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-show-the-index-of-points-or-element/15321 "2024-08-29T03:19:09Z")
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### Author: ![LuoLuoLuo](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/luoluoluo/32/15103_2.png) [@LuoLuoLuo](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/LuoLuoLuo)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2024, 3:19am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-show-the-index-of-points-or-element/15321/1 "2024-08-29T03:19:09Z")

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Hello,  
I am trying to visulization the _.vtk_ file getting from pygmsh and to check the mesh quality, so i’d like to show the index of points on the plot, but i can only find the points with no index.  
I appreciate your help.

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e817c668ac6b211848f4350fa7d89750b7041d67.png)

Sincerely.

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2024, 8:30am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-show-the-index-of-points-or-element/15321/2 "2024-08-29T08:30:24Z")

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Creating a selection of all your data would then let your display the ID of each points.

You can do that with the View-\>FindData widget.

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### Author: ![LuoLuoLuo](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/luoluoluo/32/15103_2.png) [@LuoLuoLuo](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/LuoLuoLuo)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2024, 5:02am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-show-the-index-of-points-or-element/15321/3 "2024-08-30T05:02:37Z")

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oh! thanks a lot！