# Export Surface LIC view

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/export-surface-lic-view/9982
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [July 7, 2022, 9:38am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/export-surface-lic-view/9982 "2022-07-07T09:38:58Z")
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### Author: ![s195t](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@s195t](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/s195t)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2022, 9:38am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/export-surface-lic-view/9982/1 "2022-07-07T09:38:58Z")

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Dear everyone,  
I am trying to export a 2d slice of a field as an .x3d file. It works wonderfully for basically every variable that I need with the Surface LIC as only exception. As far as I understood there is no way to export a representation, only variables.

However since I only need the 2d slice, an answer has been given in the following [thread](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/surface-lic-representation-exporting/665).

I was wondering if there is a way, from a slice to use [vtkImageDataLIC2D](https://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkImageDataLIC2D.html) and [vtkStructuredGridLIC2D](https://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkStructuredGridLIC2D.html) to come to the same results, which would be the export as an x3d file.

Now I just use `ExportView(file,view=RenderView)` for all the other variables, it would be nice to convert the SurfaceLIC to something processable by ExportView instead of a representation

Thanks a lot in advance

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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: [July 7, 2022, 2:02pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/export-surface-lic-view/9982/2 "2022-07-07T14:02:13Z")

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I’m afraid only screenshots of LIC rendering are supported, as this is a shader based representation.