# vtkPVDReader

**URL:** <https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtkpvdreader/4952>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [January 4, 2021, 10:20pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtkpvdreader/4952 "2021-01-04T22:20:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![aowen](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/aowen/32/1570_2.png) [@aowen](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/aowen)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2021, 10:20pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtkpvdreader/4952/1 "2021-01-04T22:20:32Z")

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I noticed that Paraview contains a vtkPVDReader module. Are there any plans to move this out of Paraview and into the VTK library? I didn’t see any obvious dependencies on Paraview when I glanced through the file (I admittedly didn’t look too hard, though).

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**Author:** ![mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/mwestphal/32/19_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/mwestphal)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 9:39am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtkpvdreader/4952/2 "2021-01-05T09:39:42Z")

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.pvd stands for ParaView Data, so I do not think so. Which feature from .pvd are you looking for ?

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**Author:** ![aowen](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/aowen/32/1570_2.png) [@aowen](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/aowen)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 3:56pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtkpvdreader/4952/3 "2021-01-05T15:56:41Z")

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I was considering extending VisIt to read .pvd files, and this would be an easy route. We had a user ask about this, so I’m just getting a sense of what kind of effort this would require.