# I'm iniciant in Paraview. How are steps to create one text file that contain coordinates and vectors x and y?

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**Created:** [April 8, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/im-iniciant-in-paraview-how-are-steps-to-create-one-text-file-that-contain-coordinates-and-vectors-x-and-y/4010 "2020-04-08T23:03:28Z")
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### Author: ![Hercules](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/hercules/32/3398_2.png) [@Hercules](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Hercules)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/im-iniciant-in-paraview-how-are-steps-to-create-one-text-file-that-contain-coordinates-and-vectors-x-and-y/4010/1 "2020-04-08T23:03:28Z")

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How are steps to create one text file that contain coordinates and vectors x and yI’m iniciant in Paraview. How are steps to create one text file that contain coordinates and vectors x and y

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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: [April 9, 2020, 4:13am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/im-iniciant-in-paraview-how-are-steps-to-create-one-text-file-that-contain-coordinates-and-vectors-x-and-y/4010/2 "2020-04-09T04:13:12Z")

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- Create a file like [this](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/rVdd21ejhNdJrebVtTuswi08Bmr.csv) (58 Bytes) .
- File -\> Open -\> Open your file -\> Apply
- Filter -\> Table to points -\> Choox X, Y and Z -\> Apply

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### Author: ![wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/8e8cbc/32.png) [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/im-iniciant-in-paraview-how-are-steps-to-create-one-text-file-that-contain-coordinates-and-vectors-x-and-y/4010/3 "2020-04-09T16:35:42Z")

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There is also information of the kind asked for in the ParaView wiki. It is here: [https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView](https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView), then look under the section Importing Data. The Data Formats section has examples.