# glyph always has white arrows pointing to the x direction?

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/glyph-always-has-white-arrows-pointing-to-the-x-direction/16255
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [March 1, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/glyph-always-has-white-arrows-pointing-to-the-x-direction/16255 "2025-03-01T19:14:54Z")
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### Author: ![Feynman](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/2acd7d/32.png) [@Feynman](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Feynman)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/glyph-always-has-white-arrows-pointing-to-the-x-direction/16255/1 "2025-03-01T19:14:54Z")

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Hello,

I was modeling the fluid flux within a cylindrical material sample. However, when I used the glyph to create arrows to visualize the fluid flux (a vector variable in my case), the plot always returned some weird white arrows pointing to the x direction which is not consistent with any one of the components of the fluid flux variable. Those white arrows appeared when I visualized the displacement variable too.

Is there any way to fix this issue? I have included my dataset ( “NH\_HGO.h5” and “NH\_HGO.xdmf”) Thank you in advance for your help!

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/3X/0/0/006c4d301f76779cb1bfb2d12066dae2a60a265e.jpeg)

[NH\_HGO.h5](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/6TMnYpePPkJeXP9ffWmqlR2357e.h5) (1.4 MB)  
[NH\_HGO.xdmf](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/vM2xL0CR5lG6mBTvxxrw6Ny41Yb.xdmf) (257.8 KB)

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### Author: ![Venke](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/6de8d8/32.png) [@Venke](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Venke)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2025, 7:15am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/glyph-always-has-white-arrows-pointing-to-the-x-direction/16255/2 "2025-03-03T07:15:01Z")

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Hi,  
Just above what you are showing in the Property Editor, you should find Orientation and Scale. Orientation should be your vector property.  
HTH, Venke

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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: [March 9, 2025, 9:43am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/glyph-always-has-white-arrows-pointing-to-the-x-direction/16255/3 "2025-03-09T09:43:52Z")

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For some reason you have duplicated geometry for each of your fields, as a multiblock.

Use ExtractBlock filter first.