# Will prepomax support VTk format reading and cloud map display in the future?

**URL:** <https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/will-prepomax-support-vtk-format-reading-and-cloud-map-display-in-the-future/326>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [July 28, 2022, 8:52am UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/will-prepomax-support-vtk-format-reading-and-cloud-map-display-in-the-future/326 "2022-07-28T08:52:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![xupeiwust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/f0a364/32.png) [@xupeiwust](https://prepomax.discourse.group/u/xupeiwust)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 8:52am UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/will-prepomax-support-vtk-format-reading-and-cloud-map-display-in-the-future/326/1 "2022-07-28T08:52:12Z")

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The goal of prepomax is to develop into a general-purpose pre- and post-processor, and I think it is necessary to support the reading and writing of intermediate grid formats, such as VTK format

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**Author:** ![FEAnalyst](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/prepomax.discourse.group/feanalyst/32/688_2.png) [@FEAnalyst](https://prepomax.discourse.group/u/FEAnalyst)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 9:07am UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/will-prepomax-support-vtk-format-reading-and-cloud-map-display-in-the-future/326/2 "2022-07-28T09:07:09Z")

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This has already been discussed here: [Export to \*.vtu Format for Paraview](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/export-to-vtu-format-for-paraview/247)

There are existing converters from CalculiX’s .frd to .vtk. Maybe ParaView devs will add support for .frd files in the future, you can vote for this request: [CalculiX format native support (.frd) - Feature Requests - ParaView](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/calculix-format-native-support-frd/7807)

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**Author:** ![xupeiwust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/f0a364/32.png) [@xupeiwust](https://prepomax.discourse.group/u/xupeiwust)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 11:12pm UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/will-prepomax-support-vtk-format-reading-and-cloud-map-display-in-the-future/326/3 "2022-07-28T23:12:29Z")

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> [@xupeiwust](#):
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> The goal of prepomax is to develop into a general-purpose pre- and post-processor, and I think it is necessary to support the reading and writing of intermediate grid formats, such as VTK format

Thank you for your reply, I know this program, I mean if the future development direction of propremax is to support the pre- and post-processing of various other solvers, I think it is a good way to natively support the reading and writing of vtk