# Supplementing cells data with an additional column with the user values
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/supplementing-cells-data-with-an-additional-column-with-the-user-values/4829
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [July 13, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/supplementing-cells-data-with-an-additional-column-with-the-user-values/4829 "2020-07-13T17:29:06Z")
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### Author:  [@Andrei](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Andrei)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/supplementing-cells-data-with-an-additional-column-with-the-user-values/4829/1 "2020-07-13T17:29:06Z")
I imported the model into Paraview from another program (it is structural finite element model, which is represented by an unstructured grid), so I have cells and points data.
Please help how to supplement cells data with a column with the external user data (as if adding a column in Excel). I can represent the external data in any way, for example, a csv file, so that each cell corresponds to a value. I need it in order to plot the distribution of user values on the mesh
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2020, 11:41am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/supplementing-cells-data-with-an-additional-column-with-the-user-values/4829/2 "2020-07-15T11:41:30Z")
- Export your data from your software to a .csv
- Open your .csv in ParaView
- Add a TableToPoints filter et check the “Keep All Arrays”, Apply
- Add a Tetrahedralize filter, Apply
- Add a PointDataToCellData filter, Apply
- Click on the PointDataToCellData, press control and click on your dataset to select both
- Add an AppendAttributes filter, Apply
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### Author:  [@Andrei](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Andrei)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2020, 12:39pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/supplementing-cells-data-with-an-additional-column-with-the-user-values/4829/3 "2020-07-15T12:39:48Z")
Many thanks for the help!
This solution works without any additions.
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### Author:  [@Andrei](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Andrei)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/supplementing-cells-data-with-an-additional-column-with-the-user-values/4829/4 "2020-07-27T14:54:00Z")
The question remained, is it possible to render (using a surface by analogy with stresses, deformations, velocities) this user data on an unstructured grid (assuming the number of user values exactly matches the number of cells)? This question moved to a new topic [Render user data on an unstructured grid](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/render-user-data-on-an-unstructured-grid/4973)
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2021, 8:05am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/supplementing-cells-data-with-an-additional-column-with-the-user-values/4829/5 "2021-08-02T08:05:56Z")
2 posts were split to a new topic: [I want to get Uniform Rectilinear Grid](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/i-want-to-get-uniform-rectilinear-grid/7738)