# Views (Tutorial 8)

Introduction to Gmsh views and view options. Gmsh views are data sets associated
with a given mesh. Gmsh can display and export a number of post-processing data file formats.

[**Download the `view1.pos` file used in this tutorial**](https://gitlab.onelab.info/gmsh/gmsh/-/raw/master/tutorials/view1.pos?inline=false)

[**Download the `view4.pos` file used in this tutorial**](https://gitlab.onelab.info/gmsh/gmsh/-/raw/master/tutorials/view4.pos?inline=false)

### Python
```python
{{#include ../../../../tutorials/python/t8.py}}
```
