# Applying same selection to multiple surfaces

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/applying-same-selection-to-multiple-surfaces/6369
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [February 2, 2021, 3:03pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/applying-same-selection-to-multiple-surfaces/6369 "2021-02-02T15:03:59Z")
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### Author: ![jdesman1](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@jdesman1](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jdesman1)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2021, 3:03pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/applying-same-selection-to-multiple-surfaces/6369/1 "2021-02-02T15:03:59Z")

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Hi,

I was wondering if it was possible to apply to exact same filter to multiple surfaces. For example, I applied a connectivity filter to a surface to extract particular points. I have multiple surfaces that are indexed the same way and was wondering if it was possible to directly apply this to other regions.

To extract my surface of interest, I used the Connectivity filter–\>extract largest region–\>apply

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2021, 3:59pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/applying-same-selection-to-multiple-surfaces/6369/2 "2021-02-02T15:59:16Z")

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They are many ways:

1. Right Click -\> Change Input
2. Copy/Paster properties
3. Python macros
4. Custom filters