# Reading Density Field Data

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reading-density-field-data/12476
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [July 10, 2023, 3:18am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reading-density-field-data/12476 "2023-07-10T03:18:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![ChemEng](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/chemeng/32/13830_2.png) [@ChemEng](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ChemEng)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2023, 3:18am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reading-density-field-data/12476/1 "2023-07-10T03:18:18Z")

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Hello Paraview Users,

Could help me with the error I am getting reading this file in for visualizing the density fields? I will attach it below. However, I am getting the error message: Unsupported point attribute type: .0 and have no idea why.

Thank you

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# vtk DataFile Version 5.1

DensityFields eps1rho1Wd2\_2 07\_05\_23  
ASCII  
DATASET STRUCTURED\_POINTS  
DIMENSIONS 55 55 55  
ORIGIN 0.0 0.0 0.0  
SPACING 1.0 1.0 1.0  
POINT\_DATA 166375.0  
SCALARS Density float  
LOOKUP\_TABLE default  
-0.002910555 -0.002298629 -0.000676079 0.001894692 0.005001408 0.007941415 0.009946997 0.010502674 0.009580551 0.007633297 0.005343035 0.003299655 0.001810851 0.000916456 0.000531054 0.000591254 0.001129774 0.002261375 0.004107209 0.00671979 0.01010936 0.014476287 0.020660705 0.030598782 0.047292858 0.073705411 0.110453052 0.153314117 0.192629702 0.216266394 0.215368578 0.189374427 0.146578387 0.099686055 0.059588953 0.031480799 0.014975218 0.006790607 0.003473043 0.00267415 0.003081561 0.003882711 0.004461275 0.00444417 0.00382262 0.002889078 0.001997021 0.001339962 0.000898581 0.000532363 9.6103e-05 -0.000495729 -0.001246783 -0.002060131 -0.002720163

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### Author: ![Venke](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/6de8d8/32.png) [@Venke](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Venke)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2023, 6:15am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reading-density-field-data/12476/2 "2023-07-10T06:15:52Z")

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I would guess that the Number after “POINT\_DATA” should be an integer. Does it help to delete the “.0”? Cheers,  
Venke

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### Author: ![ChemEng](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/chemeng/32/13830_2.png) [@ChemEng](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ChemEng)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2023, 1:05pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reading-density-field-data/12476/3 "2023-07-10T13:05:53Z")

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Thank you, I did not realize the number of points also need to be in INT format.

-C