# Completely lost with "interactive" Clip filter in 5.12

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/completely-lost-with-interactive-clip-filter-in-5-12/14064
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [March 1, 2024, 12:10pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/completely-lost-with-interactive-clip-filter-in-5-12/14064 "2024-03-01T12:10:14Z")
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### Author: ![cobo](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f17d59/32.png) [@cobo](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cobo)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2024, 12:10pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/completely-lost-with-interactive-clip-filter-in-5-12/14064/1 "2024-03-01T12:10:14Z")

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Coming from PV 5.10 to 5.12, I am completely lost with the new Clip filter handling: I simply do not find a way how I can move the clip plane along the clip normal axis! If I “move” that new circle, it gets larger and smaller (but what does it even mean?), and if I try moving the center point, it moves only within the current clip plane. The only thing I can do is to change the normal direction.

Before you could do two things: “rotate” the normal axis and move the plane along that axis - and the latter was by far my most important operation. I am sure also the first question of my customers will be exactly that!

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e985487a4c553b323311a6b5419611fdce1f5541.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: [March 1, 2024, 12:18pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/completely-lost-with-interactive-clip-filter-in-5-12/14064/2 "2024-03-01T12:18:18Z")

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- hover the white part, it becomes green
- click in it, keep pressing down
- move mouse
- release

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### Author: ![cobo](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f17d59/32.png) [@cobo](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cobo)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2024, 1:15pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/completely-lost-with-interactive-clip-filter-in-5-12/14064/3 "2024-03-01T13:15:06Z")

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Wow - so simple 😂

Looks like it is all about habits: I always used to “grab” the red boundary with the mouse, but comparing now with 5.10 I see: “grabbing” the white surface inside the boundary worked already there, while now it seems to be “the one and only”.

Thanks a lot! Must have been an easy one 😉