# Creating Cylinders with different layers

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/creating-cylinders-with-different-layers/7026
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [April 22, 2021, 10:54am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/creating-cylinders-with-different-layers/7026 "2021-04-22T10:54:13Z")
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### Author: ![jb123](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3ab097/32.png) [@jb123](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jb123)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2021, 10:54am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/creating-cylinders-with-different-layers/7026/1 "2021-04-22T10:54:13Z")

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Hello everyone,

as my research within the existing conversations wasn’t too successful, I am trying it this way to find a solution for my issue. I would consider myself as new Paraview user using ParaView 5.9.0. I am not familiar with python.  
My goal is to visualise cylinders with different layers as I wish to visualize borehole logs:  
An example for a cylinder with a length of 3 meters would be  
0-1 meter: sand  
1-2 meters: gravel  
2-3 meters: silt

I have got the coordinates and heights for each cylinder (and layer) within an Excel-sheet and would like to visualize these in ParaView like mentioned above. As we wish to import a lot of cylinders like this, a manual solution is not really practicable.  
Is there a way to import point data and visualize it as cylinders with different layers or is there another way to work with the given point data so it looks like a cylinder in ParaView?

I am looking forward to any reply or hint which helps me to solve my issue.  
Thanks in advance!