# ParaView System Architecture Wiki

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-system-architecture-wiki/13161
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [November 1, 2023, 9:37pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-system-architecture-wiki/13161 "2023-11-01T21:37:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![hasraz](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/hasraz/32/12573_2.png) [@hasraz](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/hasraz)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2023, 9:37pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-system-architecture-wiki/13161/1 "2023-11-01T21:37:46Z")

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Hello, I’m looking for recommendations for documents that can give a high-level overview of different components of the ParaView project. I found User guide and Developer guide (generated document for Python and C++ API) that did not meet my needs.

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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: [November 2, 2023, 2:13am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-system-architecture-wiki/13161/2 "2023-11-02T02:13:39Z")

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@cory.quammen @ben.boeckel

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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: [November 2, 2023, 9:29am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-system-architecture-wiki/13161/3 "2023-11-02T09:29:28Z")

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> [@hasraz](#):
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> high-level overview of different components of the ParaView project.

In terms of software design ?

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### Author: ![hasraz](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/hasraz/32/12573_2.png) [@hasraz](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/hasraz)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2023, 1:22pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-system-architecture-wiki/13161/4 "2023-11-02T13:22:41Z")

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Yes.

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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: [November 2, 2023, 1:24pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-system-architecture-wiki/13161/5 "2023-11-02T13:24:56Z")

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I’m afraid such document does not exist, Kitware does have a course about it though: [https://www.kitware.com/courses/paraview-developers-course/](https://www.kitware.com/courses/paraview-developers-course/)
