# Add feature to evenly distribute views
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/add-feature-to-evenly-distribute-views/7417
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [June 16, 2021, 7:16am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/add-feature-to-evenly-distribute-views/7417 "2021-06-16T07:16:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@GregVernon](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/GregVernon)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2021, 7:16am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/add-feature-to-evenly-distribute-views/7417/1 "2021-06-16T07:16:46Z")
**Problem:** If a user wants to create a layout of views that are divisible by two, it’s quite simple to get an even distribution of these views using the `split` icons:
However, if the user wants a layout of say, three images, it’s quite onerous to do so. Also, there have been a handful of times where I’ve accidentally moved the dividing line between a “power of two” layout and it’s painful to get back to an even distribution again.
For example, here’s me trying to use the GUI to make a 1x3 layout of results:
I’m then left with either dragging the dividing lines back and forth to get _close_ to an even distribution, or I’ve got to load up a Python shell and run a trace command in order to script this.
**Proposed Feature:**
Some functionality in ParaView that does one or more of the following:
- Lets the user specify the relative width & height for each view in a layout,
- Lets the user add a “dimension constraint” between two or more views to set one or more of their dimensions to be equal.
- Lets the user select multiple contiguous views and `distribute [horizontally | vertically]` similar to PowerPoint.
- Other?
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2021, 7:41am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/add-feature-to-evenly-distribute-views/7417/2 "2021-06-16T07:41:09Z")
> [@GregVernon](#):
>
> Lets the user select multiple contiguous views and `distribute [horizontally | vertically]` similar to PowerPoint.
A simpler idea would be as follows:
Add two new buttons next to the split buttons: distribute horizontally, distribute vertically.
When clicked, all views will be distributed in the wanted direction. Eg:
become:
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2021, 4:41pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/add-feature-to-evenly-distribute-views/7417/3 "2021-06-16T16:41:24Z")
Mathieu, good idea. [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/20788](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/20788).
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2021, 4:42pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/add-feature-to-evenly-distribute-views/7417/4 "2021-06-16T16:42:00Z")
And Greg, thanks for the “nudge”.
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### Author:  [@Cavid\_Azimi](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Cavid_Azimi)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2023, 5:37pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/add-feature-to-evenly-distribute-views/7417/5 "2023-08-14T17:37:11Z")
Is this feature available to use? I need to evenly distribute the windows!
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2023, 1:17am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/add-feature-to-evenly-distribute-views/7417/6 "2023-08-15T01:17:01Z")
It was added in [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/merge\_requests/4719](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/merge_requests/4719) and will be available in ParaView 5.12.0. It is available right now in the nightly builds available at [www.paraview.org/download](http://www.paraview.org/download).
To use, Ctrl/right click on the Layout tab above the views and select the menu item named “Rearrange Views” and select an option.
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### Author:  [@theodorebaltis](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/theodorebaltis)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2023, 4:18pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/add-feature-to-evenly-distribute-views/7417/7 "2023-08-15T16:18:19Z")
Very cool!
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### Author:  [@joao.zerba](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/joao.zerba)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/add-feature-to-evenly-distribute-views/7417/8 "2024-03-28T13:52:39Z")
Dear Cory, thanks for this feature. I wonder if there is a python command for this Equalize Views? It seems this command is not available to be traced in the ParaView GUI.
Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2024, 2:25pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/add-feature-to-evenly-distribute-views/7417/9 "2024-03-28T14:25:11Z")
@nicolas.vuaille any plans to expose in Python?
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### Author:  [@nicolas.vuaille](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/nicolas.vuaille)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2024, 2:37pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/add-feature-to-evenly-distribute-views/7417/10 "2024-03-28T14:37:52Z")
I have no plan to improve python support, but it is already available:
```auto
GetLayout().SMProxy.EqualizeViews()
```
Or for specfic direction:
```auto
GetLayout().SMProxy.EqualizeViews(paraview.modules.vtkRemotingViews.vtkSMViewLayoutProxy.HORIZONTAL)
```
I think it should be very easy to add that in `simple.py`
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2024, 9:32pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/add-feature-to-evenly-distribute-views/7417/11 "2024-07-22T21:32:20Z")
`paraview.simple` functions added in [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/merge\_requests/6962](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/merge_requests/6962)