# paraview display data
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-display-data/4929
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** vtk
**Created:** [July 23, 2020, 3:17am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-display-data/4929 "2020-07-23T03:17:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Jie](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Jie)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2020, 3:17am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-display-data/4929/1 "2020-07-23T03:17:29Z")
Hello everyone, since I am very unfamiliar with paraview, I would like to ask you some questions. I want to use paraview to display the triangular prism grid. Can the data be visualized, or what should I do to display the triangular prism grid data? Thank you!
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2020, 7:35am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-display-data/4929/2 "2020-07-23T07:35:35Z")
I’m afraid your question is not clear enough to get an answer. Can you clarify ?
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### Author:  [@Jie](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Jie)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2020, 9:30am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-display-data/4929/3 "2020-07-23T09:30:34Z")
Hello, I know that paraview can open data such as tetrahedrons and hexahedrons, but my current data is a triangular prism, I don’t know if I can use paraview to visualize the results, thank you!
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2020, 9:41am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-display-data/4929/4 "2020-07-23T09:41:41Z")
VTK and ParaView supports Wedge cells, which is a more generic version of a triangular prism.
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### Author:  [@Jie](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Jie)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2020, 11:11am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-display-data/4929/5 "2020-07-23T11:11:34Z")
Thank you very much, since I am very unfamiliar with paraview, how can I use it to open my triangular prism data?
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2020, 11:16am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-display-data/4929/6 "2020-07-23T11:16:11Z")
Which file format is your data ? If the file format is supported, just open it with ParaView.
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### Author:  [@Jie](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Jie)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2020, 11:22am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-display-data/4929/7 "2020-07-23T11:22:46Z")
My original data format is not supported by paraview. I imitated the vtk format of a hexahedron and converted it. However, since I have not learned the vtk format of a triangular prism, when using paraview to read data, I can only read point information, but not Take the volume information of the triangular prism.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2020, 11:33am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-display-data/4929/8 "2020-07-23T11:33:21Z")
This is more a VTK question. In any case, refer to this document :
[https://vtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/file-formats.pdf](https://vtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/file-formats.pdf)
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### Author:  [@Jie](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Jie)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2020, 12:00pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-display-data/4929/9 "2020-07-23T12:00:46Z")
Ok, thank you very much!