Introduction

ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application based on Visualization Toolkit (VTK).

The first public release was announced in October 2002. Since then, the project has grown through collaborative efforts between Kitware Inc., Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Army Research Laboratory, and various other government and commercial institutions, and academic partners.

Learning Resources

General information is available at the ParaView Homepage.
The ParaView User's Guide can be found on the ParaView Documentation.
Community discussion takes place on the ParaView Discourse forum.
Commercial support and training are available from Kitware.
Additional documentation, including Doxygen-generated nightly reference documentation, is available online.

Building

There are two ways to build ParaView:

The easiest method for begginners to build ParaView from source is by using our Getting Started compilation guide which includes commands to install the needed dependencies for most operating systems.
Another way to build ParaView, quite useful when trying to enable more specific options which requires to build dependencies yourself (ie osmesa, raytracing), would be the ParaView Superbuild. The superbuild downloads and builds all of ParaView's dependencies as well as ParaView itself.

Reporting Bugs

If you have found a bug:

If you have a source-code fix, please read the CONTRIBUTING.md document.
Otherwise, please join the ParaView Discourse forum and ask about the expected and observed behaviors to determine if it is really a bug.
Finally, if the issue is not resolved by the above steps, open an entry in the ParaView Issue Tracker.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for instructions to contribute.

For Github users

Github is a mirror of the official repository. We do not actively monitor issues or pull requests on Github. Please use the official repository to report issues or contribute fixes.

License

ParaView is distributed under the OSI-approved BSD 3-clause License. See Copyright.txt for details. For additional licenses, refer to ParaView Licenses.