# Node Editor wwith custom nodes
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/node-editor-wwith-custom-nodes/13097
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [October 25, 2023, 12:57pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/node-editor-wwith-custom-nodes/13097 "2023-10-25T12:57:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Davis](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Andrew_Davis)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2023, 12:57pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/node-editor-wwith-custom-nodes/13097/1 "2023-10-25T12:57:37Z")
Hi, I’m interested in using the ParaView node editor as a custom GUI to produce inputs for some of my software, its not clear to me how I would go about leveraging the work already done. Does anyone have any hints if we can use custom nodes in the node editor?
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2023, 1:13pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/node-editor-wwith-custom-nodes/13097/2 "2023-10-25T13:13:01Z")
@Jonas.Lukasczyk @Charles_Gueunet
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### Author:  [@Charles\_Gueunet](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Charles_Gueunet)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2023, 2:06pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/node-editor-wwith-custom-nodes/13097/3 "2023-10-25T14:06:07Z")
@Andrew_Davis Thanks for your interest in the Node editor, I know that some project like [cmb](https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmb/cmb) have already used it to setup a simulation instead of a VTK pipeline, but we stay in the same ecosystem. If you are completely outside of VTK maybe some changes will be needed to make this node editor efficient … and if you go with it we would be glad to update the ParaView code accordingly.
For the custom node, I am not exactly sure about which kind of object your are talking about. A new type of node ? A node corresonding to a new kind of proxy ?