# Clipping a portion of slice along a curved line.

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/clipping-a-portion-of-slice-along-a-curved-line/16772
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [June 4, 2025, 12:28am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/clipping-a-portion-of-slice-along-a-curved-line/16772 "2025-06-04T00:28:59Z")
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### Author: ![scabo](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@scabo](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/scabo)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2025, 12:28am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/clipping-a-portion-of-slice-along-a-curved-line/16772/1 "2025-06-04T00:28:59Z")

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Hi  
I want to clip a portion of the slice along a curved line and then calcualte the area averaged properties on that 2 specific surfaces. I have attached the picture and i want to clip along the outer edges of the corner streamlines and seperate the bigger and the smaller streamlines. How can I do this?

 ![paraview_mirror_doubt](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/3X/5/c/5cb0a18d9675e86b69fb777cf79cc9215a6eae93.png)

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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: [June 4, 2025, 7:58am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/clipping-a-portion-of-slice-along-a-curved-line/16772/2 "2025-06-04T07:58:56Z")

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This is not easy to do, you can look at: [Slice/Clip with a surface - #2](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/slice-clip-with-a-surface/9436/2)