# Extracting Wall nomal profiles from Cone simulation
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/extracting-wall-nomal-profiles-from-cone-simulation/17467
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [March 9, 2026, 11:51am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/extracting-wall-nomal-profiles-from-cone-simulation/17467 "2026-03-09T11:51:12Z")
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### Author:  [@Sulav\_Kafle](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Sulav_Kafle)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2026, 11:51am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/extracting-wall-nomal-profiles-from-cone-simulation/17467/1 "2026-03-09T11:51:12Z")
Hi, I want to extract wall normal profiles of my cone simulation. i donot want to plot along perpendicular y to surface but along the wall normal. How can i do that ?
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2026, 4:37pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/extracting-wall-nomal-profiles-from-cone-simulation/17467/2 "2026-03-11T16:37:19Z")
please share your data.
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### Author:  [@Sulav\_Kafle](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Sulav_Kafle)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2026, 10:53pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/extracting-wall-nomal-profiles-from-cone-simulation/17467/3 "2026-03-11T22:53:10Z")
Hi Mathieu,
Do you mean cgns file ? or what data?
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2026, 9:27am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/extracting-wall-nomal-profiles-from-cone-simulation/17467/4 "2026-03-12T09:27:46Z")
Yes, the cgns file.