# Particle path

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/particle-path/2569
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [September 17, 2019, 4:05am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/particle-path/2569 "2019-09-17T04:05:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Alex\_Bafkar](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/alex_bafkar/32/2008_2.png) [@Alex\_Bafkar](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Alex_Bafkar)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2019, 4:05am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/particle-path/2569/1 "2019-09-17T04:05:31Z")

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Hey Guys,

I am trying to post-process my data and visualise the particle path from the CSV file with the x,y, and z values. I used the table to points and from there I tried to use particle path filter and the second I choose it it will crash. Can someone please help me, I am really stuck here and need to get it done as soon as possible.

Best

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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: [September 17, 2019, 4:14am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/particle-path/2569/2 "2019-09-17T04:14:42Z")

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Please share your dataset.

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### Author: ![Alex\_Bafkar](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/alex_bafkar/32/2008_2.png) [@Alex\_Bafkar](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Alex_Bafkar)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2019, 4:20am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/particle-path/2569/3 "2019-09-17T04:20:10Z")

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Hi Mathieu,  
Please find the dataset on the shared link below:

> **[paraview\_particule.csv](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZFwaosjxkZ_6ndMBdY0or7cfSevKrctJ/view?usp=sharing)**
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> Google Drive file.

Best,  
Alex

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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: [September 17, 2019, 4:38am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/particle-path/2569/4 "2019-09-17T04:38:41Z")

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Your dataset is not temporal, so you can’t use TemporalParticlesToPathLines.  
The simplest way to fix that after looking at your file is to separate you file into multiple numbered file.

It would look like that :  
Transform your paraview\_particles.csv

```
time values...
0 x y z
1 x y z

```

Into paraview\_particles0.csv

```
time values...
0 x y z

```

and paraview\_particles1.csv

```
time values...
1 x y z

```

Also you may want to work with a much smaller dataset until you understand your workflow with ParaView.

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### Author: ![yijianmingliu](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/ebca7d/32.png) [@yijianmingliu](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/yijianmingliu)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2019, 8:50am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/particle-path/2569/5 "2019-11-14T08:50:26Z")

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hi,  
I also want to do this. Can you talk about the specific steps of using csv for particle tracking? It would be better if you could share a sample. 😄  
best.

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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 14, 2019, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/particle-path/2569/6 "2019-11-14T16:54:25Z")

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I explained just above. Did you try my suggestion ?