# From slice to plane
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/from-slice-to-plane/13435
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** vtk
**Created:** [December 4, 2023, 12:45pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/from-slice-to-plane/13435 "2023-12-04T12:45:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@mar.premi](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mar.premi)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2023, 12:45pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/from-slice-to-plane/13435/1 "2023-12-04T12:45:45Z")
Hi,
I want to create a plane parallel to the one that I already import that pass through a point.
Which is the best way to do that?
I found how to create a slice parallel to the plane. Is it better to use source → plane?
But how can I say that I want it parallel?
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### Author:  [@nicolas.vuaille](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/nicolas.vuaille)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2023, 1:14pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/from-slice-to-plane/13435/2 "2023-12-04T13:14:24Z")
How do you get your initial plane ? As paraview will not know that a loaded data is a plane, the concept of parallel will be hard to automate.
You can `transform` your plane to translate it at the correct position, and then `resample with dataset`. Or get in some way the `normal` to your plane to manually set it in the `slice filter`. Then you can move the slice along the normal, and even click on the mesh to set the origin.
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### Author:  [@mar.premi](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mar.premi)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2023, 1:49pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/from-slice-to-plane/13435/3 "2023-12-04T13:49:38Z")
I had this plane from another software, it is a vtk file.
At the end I want to divide this ventricle in different parts. So I want to put a plane that is parallel to the grey one and that pass through a point. Then I also want another plane that pass through the center of a line that is perpendicular to the grey one!