# Adding thickness to a surface mesh

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/adding-thickness-to-a-surface-mesh/6568
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [February 28, 2021, 4:22pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/adding-thickness-to-a-surface-mesh/6568 "2021-02-28T16:22:19Z")
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### Author: ![Kenichiro-Yoshimi](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/ecc23a/32.png) [@Kenichiro-Yoshimi](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Kenichiro-Yoshimi)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2021, 10:40am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/adding-thickness-to-a-surface-mesh/6568/3 "2021-03-01T10:40:30Z")

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Hello,

A simple work around is to use the Delaunay 3D filter if adding thickness to a sphere. See the attached state file:  
[delaunay\_3d.zip](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/9q9IvUlkzaDse1H30ck9Mg0APie.zip) (393.0 KB)

 ![delaunay_3d](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6d429a15dd4642b98c8ad6f0731e241b55d71c40.png)  
But, the cutting surface by the Clip filter with box might not be very sharp as shown in the upper left figure.

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