# PetscViewerView
Visualizes a viewer object. 
## Synopsis
```
#include "petscviewer.h" 
PetscErrorCode PetscViewerView(PetscViewer v, PetscViewer viewer)
```
Collective on v


## Input Parameters

- ***v -*** the viewer to be viewed
- ***viewer -*** visualization context



## Note
The available visualization contexts include
```none
  PETSC_VIEWER_STDOUT_SELF - standard output (default)
  PETSC_VIEWER_STDOUT_WORLD - synchronized standard output where only the first rank opens the file. Other processors send their data to the first rank
  PETSC_VIEWER_DRAW_WORLD - graphical display of nonzero structure
```





## See Also
 `PetscViewer`, `PetscViewerPushFormat()`, `PetscViewerASCIIOpen()`, `PetscViewerDrawOpen()`,
`PetscViewerSocketOpen()`, `PetscViewerBinaryOpen()`, `PetscViewerLoad()`

## Level
beginner

## Location
<A HREF="PETSC_DOC_OUT_ROOT_PLACEHOLDER/src/sys/classes/viewer/interface/view.c.html#PetscViewerView">src/sys/classes/viewer/interface/view.c</A>

## Examples
<A HREF="PETSC_DOC_OUT_ROOT_PLACEHOLDER/src/sys/classes/viewer/tutorials/ex2.c.html">src/sys/classes/viewer/tutorials/ex2.c.html</A><BR>

## Implementations

<A HREF="PETSC_DOC_OUT_ROOT_PLACEHOLDER/src/dm/impls/plex/plexexodusii.c.html#PetscViewerView_ExodusII">PetscViewerView_ExodusII in src/dm/impls/plex/plexexodusii.c</A><BR>
<A HREF="PETSC_DOC_OUT_ROOT_PLACEHOLDER/src/sys/classes/viewer/impls/ascii/filev.c.html#PetscViewerView_ASCII">PetscViewerView_ASCII in src/sys/classes/viewer/impls/ascii/filev.c</A><BR>
<A HREF="PETSC_DOC_OUT_ROOT_PLACEHOLDER/src/sys/classes/viewer/impls/binary/binv.c.html#PetscViewerView_Binary">PetscViewerView_Binary in src/sys/classes/viewer/impls/binary/binv.c</A><BR>
<A HREF="PETSC_DOC_OUT_ROOT_PLACEHOLDER/src/sys/classes/viewer/impls/cgns/cgnsv.c.html#PetscViewerView_CGNS">PetscViewerView_CGNS in src/sys/classes/viewer/impls/cgns/cgnsv.c</A><BR>
<A HREF="PETSC_DOC_OUT_ROOT_PLACEHOLDER/src/sys/classes/viewer/impls/draw/drawv.c.html#PetscViewerView_Draw">PetscViewerView_Draw in src/sys/classes/viewer/impls/draw/drawv.c</A><BR>
<A HREF="PETSC_DOC_OUT_ROOT_PLACEHOLDER/src/sys/classes/viewer/impls/hdf5/hdf5v.c.html#PetscViewerView_HDF5">PetscViewerView_HDF5 in src/sys/classes/viewer/impls/hdf5/hdf5v.c</A><BR>


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[Index of all Viewer routines](index.md)  
[Table of Contents for all manual pages](/docs/manualpages/index.md)  
[Index of all manual pages](/docs/manualpages/singleindex.md)  
