# Create meshed surface from CFD results
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/create-meshed-surface-from-cfd-results/17442
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [February 16, 2026, 7:54am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/create-meshed-surface-from-cfd-results/17442 "2026-02-16T07:54:34Z")
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### Author:  [@markusandersson](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/markusandersson)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 7:54am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/create-meshed-surface-from-cfd-results/17442/1 "2026-02-16T07:54:35Z")
Hi All!
I hace recently discovered paraview as a tool to handle huge CSV files. My work is to get the results from CFD Engineers and transfer them to 3DsMax to do nice renders. I now have a fluid in a pipe with information about the fraction of gas that I want to import to 3ds Max. I want to make a surface mesh of a pointcloud from a CSV-file and color it with the fraction-info. I have tried to use 3D Delaunay but that crashes my computer. Any tips on how to solve this would be very helpful. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 8:47am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/create-meshed-surface-from-cfd-results/17442/2 "2026-02-16T08:47:55Z")
> [@markusandersson](#):
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> pointcloud from a CSV-file and color it with the fraction-info
Am i right to assume that the point are not on the surface bot on the whole volume of the pipe ?
> 3D Delaunay but that crashes my computer.
Indeed, you’d need first to extract by convex part, which I think should be doable by selecting each straight part of the pipe.
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### Author:  [@markusandersson](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/markusandersson)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 9:49am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/create-meshed-surface-from-cfd-results/17442/3 "2026-02-16T09:49:19Z")
Thanks for your reply!
Yes, you’re right. They’re in the whole volume. I don’t yet know what select by convex part means but I’ll google 🙂