# Plugin for AV Mesh
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plugin-for-av-mesh/17203
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [September 24, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plugin-for-av-mesh/17203 "2025-09-24T00:09:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@whereismymoney](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/whereismymoney)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plugin-for-av-mesh/17203/1 "2025-09-24T00:09:05Z")
The U. S. Air Force uses AV Mesh. [avmeshlib](https://github.com/DOD-HPCMP-CREATE/avmeshlib/)
Has anyone written a ParaView plugin to read mesh files in this format?
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2025, 9:29am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plugin-for-av-mesh/17203/2 "2025-09-24T09:29:29Z")
ParaView natively support AVMesh Volume Grid (.avm).
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### Author:  [@Andy\_Bauer](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Andy_Bauer)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2025, 10:12am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plugin-for-av-mesh/17203/3 "2025-09-24T10:12:16Z")
@elynch had a plugin for older versions of ParaView. He also implemented an AV Mesh reader that is now in ParaView 6.0 so you may just need to update to a newer version of ParaView.
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### Author:  [@whereismymoney](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/whereismymoney)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2025, 12:35pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plugin-for-av-mesh/17203/4 "2025-09-24T12:35:50Z")
Thank you for your responses. Before posting the question here, I had searched the forums and also asked one of the top AI engines (I better not say which one) about this, and I foolishly believed the response “No, ParaView cannot read .avmesh files natively. The .avmesh file format is a custom data format from the avmeshlib project and is not a standard VTK or open-source file type that ParaView has a built-in reader for. To get ParaView to read these files, you would need to write a custom plugin.”