# Paraview - VTK - vtkRIBExporter

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-vtk-vtkribexporter/5732
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [November 6, 2020, 4:17am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-vtk-vtkribexporter/5732 "2020-11-06T04:17:44Z")
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### Author: ![Nicholas\_Yue](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/nicholas_yue/32/5203_2.png) [@Nicholas\_Yue](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Nicholas_Yue)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2020, 4:17am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-vtk-vtkribexporter/5732/1 "2020-11-06T04:17:44Z")

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Paraview is built on top of VTK and VTK has a RIB exporter.

Is there a way I can leverage the RIB output from within Paraview ?

Cheers

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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 6, 2020, 9:43am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-vtk-vtkribexporter/5732/2 "2020-11-06T09:43:55Z")

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You can write a simple XML plugin to expose the RIB exporter in ParaView.