# Changing plane of data

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/changing-plane-of-data/11877
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [April 13, 2023, 9:23pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/changing-plane-of-data/11877 "2023-04-13T21:23:38Z")
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### Author: ![atousa3D](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@atousa3D](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/atousa3D)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2023, 9:23pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/changing-plane-of-data/11877/1 "2023-04-13T21:23:39Z")

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Hi, I have a naïve question: I have a 2D topography (function of lat/lon). I don’t know why it is shown on z-y plane. I’d like it to be shown/oriented on x-y plane so that I can overlay another variable on top of it.

(I have a 3D salinity data that I like to plot on top of the topography. The data has its lat lon along y/x and z as depth. So I like to change the topography from y-z plane to x-y so that I can show the salinity on top of it.)

I played with axesGrid option from this page, but it only seems to change the lables and not the plane of data.  
I was wondering if you could direct me how to change the data orientation? I attached two figures to go along with my description above. Any help is appreciated! Thank you.

 ![2Ddepth_yzplane](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/c/cede33bd6a944bddce5d79932088b64adf97245f.jpeg)  
 ![Salt3D_latlondepth](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/b/b7c8c32365fc721b7d8af8aa03755038d43edfb3.jpeg)  
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### Author: ![Christos\_Tsolakis](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/christos_tsolakis/32/4450_2.png) [@Christos\_Tsolakis](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Christos_Tsolakis)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2023, 2:44am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/changing-plane-of-data/11877/2 "2023-04-14T02:44:51Z")

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Hi @atousa3D and welcome to ParaView discourse !

From the first picture your data looks already aligned with the xy plane and the z axis pointing to you . So not sure what is the goal. Rotating the data can be done using the `Transform` filter.

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### Author: ![atousa3D](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@atousa3D](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/atousa3D)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2023, 11:12pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/changing-plane-of-data/11877/3 "2023-05-03T23:12:47Z")

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Hi Christos, thank you! Transform is what I exactly was looking for! Thank you! yeah, I thin the second image I shared did not represent my question well. But anyways, problem solved!