# Reading ANSYS APDL (RST) results in Paraview

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reading-ansys-apdl-rst-results-in-paraview/9706
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [May 30, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reading-ansys-apdl-rst-results-in-paraview/9706 "2022-05-30T00:07:28Z")
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### Author: ![Mike\_Richards](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mike_richards/32/5664_2.png) [@Mike\_Richards](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Mike_Richards)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reading-ansys-apdl-rst-results-in-paraview/9706/1 "2022-05-30T00:07:28Z")

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Hi Everyone,

Is there any way to read ANSYS APDL (RST) result in Paraview?  
I searched the forum and found some posts but none of them were helpful.

Thank you in advance.

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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: [June 1, 2022, 9:35am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reading-ansys-apdl-rst-results-in-paraview/9706/2 "2022-06-01T09:35:50Z")

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Hi @Mike_Richards ,

There is no such reader in ParaView, you may need to convert your data to another format.

Best,

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### Author: ![Kenichiro-Yoshimi](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/ecc23a/32.png) [@Kenichiro-Yoshimi](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Kenichiro-Yoshimi)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2022, 10:12am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reading-ansys-apdl-rst-results-in-paraview/9706/3 "2022-06-07T10:12:37Z")

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Hi,

You may be able to convert .rst file to .vtk or .vtu file using **PyMAPDL**.

> **[GitHub - pyansys/pymapdl: Pythonic interface to MAPDL](https://github.com/pyansys/pymapdl)**
>
> Pythonic interface to MAPDL. Contribute to pyansys/pymapdl development by creating an account on GitHub.

The script for the conversion is shown below.

```python
from ansys.mapdl import reader as pymapdl_reader

result = pymapdl_reader.read_binary('file.rst')
print(result)

result.save_as_vtk('file.vtu', [0])

```

The arguments of **save\_as\_vtk** function are explained in the following link:

> <https://github.com/pyansys/pymapdl-reader/blob/7341032069a0ddd9f4e21e5d22d888920b90e9bd/ansys/mapdl/reader/rst.py#L3426>

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### Author: ![phismith](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@phismith](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/phismith)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2022, 1:57pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reading-ansys-apdl-rst-results-in-paraview/9706/4 "2022-11-10T13:57:11Z")

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Hi All,  
I know there has been a bit of time that has past, but there is another way to retrieve the data if you have access to EnSight. Select the part(s) you would like to export and select File-\>export-\>Geometric Entities. You can then save it as a case file, which ParaView will be able to open.

Of course, if you have no access to EnSight, using the method above would be the only option that I know of.