# \[SOLVED\] What happened to the compas\_viewers?

**URL:** <https://forum.compas-framework.org/t/solved-what-happened-to-the-compas-viewers/373>\
**Category:** compas\
**Created:** [August 8, 2020, 10:36am UTC](https://forum.compas-framework.org/t/solved-what-happened-to-the-compas-viewers/373 "2020-08-08T10:36:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![mononym](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.compas-framework.org/mononym/32/211_2.png) [@mononym](https://forum.compas-framework.org/u/mononym)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 10:36am UTC](https://forum.compas-framework.org/t/solved-what-happened-to-the-compas-viewers/373/1 "2020-08-08T10:36:32Z")

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Is there an equivalent for the `compas_viewers.multimeshviewer` in the recent releases ?

> <https://github.com/compas-dev/examples/blob/master/examples/platonic-solids/platonic-solids.py>

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**Author:** ![mononym](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.compas-framework.org/mononym/32/211_2.png) [@mononym](https://forum.compas-framework.org/u/mononym)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 11:46am UTC](https://forum.compas-framework.org/t/solved-what-happened-to-the-compas-viewers/373/2 "2020-08-08T11:46:25Z")

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Stupid me: it’s a plugin…

> **[compas-dev/compas\_viewers](https://github.com/compas-dev/compas_viewers)**
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> Standalone viewers based on PySide2 and OpenGL. Contribute to compas-dev/compas\_viewers development by creating an account on GitHub.

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**Author:** ![tomvanmele](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.compas-framework.org/tomvanmele/32/13_2.png) [@tomvanmele](https://forum.compas-framework.org/u/tomvanmele)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.compas-framework.org/t/solved-what-happened-to-the-compas-viewers/373/3 "2020-08-10T12:58:45Z")

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just FYI, if you are trying to visualize geometry objects as well, you should use the object viewer and not the multimesh. the latter is deprecated and will be removed in the future…

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**Author:** ![mononym](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.compas-framework.org/mononym/32/211_2.png) [@mononym](https://forum.compas-framework.org/u/mononym)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.compas-framework.org/t/solved-what-happened-to-the-compas-viewers/373/4 "2020-08-10T14:50:42Z")

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Thanks. Do I get it right ? The multimesh viewer will be removed and what’s left is the mesh viewer and the object viewer. Or is the plan to remove both mesh viewers ?

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**Author:** ![tomvanmele](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.compas-framework.org/tomvanmele/32/13_2.png) [@tomvanmele](https://forum.compas-framework.org/u/tomvanmele)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.compas-framework.org/t/solved-what-happened-to-the-compas-viewers/373/5 "2020-08-10T14:52:35Z")

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both mesh viewers will be removed. meshes will be one of the object types that can be visualised using the object viewer…

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**Author:** ![mononym](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.compas-framework.org/mononym/32/211_2.png) [@mononym](https://forum.compas-framework.org/u/mononym)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.compas-framework.org/t/solved-what-happened-to-the-compas-viewers/373/6 "2020-08-10T14:54:06Z")

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OK good. That makes it quite similar to how Blender works I guess.