GLVis is a lightweight tool for accurate and flexible finite element visualization.

Features

GLVis is based on the MFEM library and is used in the BLAST, hypre and other projects. See also our Gallery and project news updates.

News

Date Message
Feb 6, 2026 Version 4.5 released.
Jan 20, 2022 New FEM@LLNL seminar series.
Feb 19, 2021 Web version at glvis.org/live.
Feb 17, 2021 Jupyter support: pip install glvis.

Latest Release

New features ┊ User documentation ┊ Sources

   

Mac ┊ Windows ┊ Older releases ┊ glvis.js ┊ pyglvis

Documentation

Building ┊ Mesh formats ┊ Parallel ┊ VTK ┊ NURBS

New users should start with the options and general use tutorial.

We also recommend reading the MFEM project documentation.

Contact

Use the GitHub issue tracker to report bugs or post questions or comments. See the About page for citation information.