# Hollow truncated cone and hollow cylinder
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/hollow-truncated-cone-and-hollow-cylinder/4491
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [June 3, 2020, 1:16pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/hollow-truncated-cone-and-hollow-cylinder/4491 "2020-06-03T13:16:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Abhik\_Roy\_Chaudhury](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Abhik_Roy_Chaudhury)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2020, 1:16pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/hollow-truncated-cone-and-hollow-cylinder/4491/1 "2020-06-03T13:16:39Z")
I want to create a\> hollow truncated cone and b\> hollow cylinder in PARAVIEW. Need help and support. Consider me as a new user.
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### Author:  [@Kenneth\_Moreland](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Kenneth_Moreland)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/hollow-truncated-cone-and-hollow-cylinder/4491/2 "2020-06-03T21:50:23Z")
Welcome to the ParaView community, @Abhik_Roy_Chaudhury.
Since you are a new user, I suggest you take a look at the _ParaView Getting Started Guide_, which is available by clicking on the `Help` menu and then selecting `Getting Started with ParaView`. This guide is a quick 2 pages that will explain the basics of ParaView in a few minutes. It will make my answer more clear.
You can create cones and cylinders by using the ParaView `Sources`. To create a cone, click the `Source` menu and select `Geometric Shapes` and then `Cone`. Likewise, to create a cylinder, click the `Source` menu and select `Geometric Shapes` and then `Cylinder`. You can play with the properties in the `Properties` panel to adjust the size and shape. Both `Cone` and `Cylinder` have a `Capping` property that you can uncheck if you want to see inside the object from the end.
When you have time, you might want to go over the ParaView tutorial (`Help` -\> `ParaView Tutorial`). It contains lots of instructions for doing things like this and much more.
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### Author:  [@Abhik\_Roy\_Chaudhury](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Abhik_Roy_Chaudhury)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2020, 6:02am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/hollow-truncated-cone-and-hollow-cylinder/4491/4 "2020-06-08T06:02:01Z")
I want to create a hollow cylinder of inner & outer radii RI and RO respectively and height H,
Let RI = 90 mm; RO = 100 m and H = 250 mm
Also I want to create a truncated cone of
Base Radius = 5 meter
Top Radius = 2.5 meter
Height = 2 meter
I seek a support from the fraternity to create these geometric entities.
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### Author:  [@Kenneth\_Moreland](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Kenneth_Moreland)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2020, 3:58pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/hollow-truncated-cone-and-hollow-cylinder/4491/5 "2020-06-08T15:58:56Z")
Ah. I think you are trying to do something that ParaView is not really designed for. ParaView is not designed to be a CAD/modeling program to define geometry. Rather, it is intended to analyze the results created from modeling and simulation.
Creating meshes like this will work better in a modeling program like [CUBIT](https://cubit.sandia.gov/).
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### Author:  [@Zuheyr\_Alsalihi](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Zuheyr_Alsalihi)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2023, 3:09pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/hollow-truncated-cone-and-hollow-cylinder/4491/6 "2023-10-07T15:09:46Z")
Dear Kenneth,
I found this thread in my search for an answer to my problem: to create a clipping shape, a cylinder, with finite length rather than the clipping infinite cylinder. Indeed, the sources create cylinder but this object is not really a data container, i.e., it does not clip the flow volume, does it? Thank you for reading! Best regards, Zuheyr
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### Author:  [@Kenneth\_Moreland](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Kenneth_Moreland)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2023, 12:59pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/hollow-truncated-cone-and-hollow-cylinder/4491/7 "2023-10-09T12:59:12Z")
@Zuheyr_Alsalihi, this is not strongly related to the original topic, so would be better asked on a new post. But as a quick answer, no, the `Clip` filter does not support clipping by arbitrary surface meshes. There is some limited support that is discussed here: [Slice/Clip with a surface](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/slice-clip-with-a-surface/9436). That said, in your case it might be easier to just to multiple clips: one with the infinite cylinder and one planar clip for each end.
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### Author:  [@Zuheyr\_Alsalihi](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Zuheyr_Alsalihi)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2023, 7:26am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/hollow-truncated-cone-and-hollow-cylinder/4491/8 "2023-10-10T07:26:03Z")
Dear Kenneth,
Apologies for the late reply due to my inexperience here.
Thank you, I am grateful for this information. It is also new to me that I can combine multiple clips to define a clipping volume. Do I understand correctly?
Kindest regards, Zuheyr
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### Author:  [@Kenneth\_Moreland](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Kenneth_Moreland)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2023, 11:49am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/hollow-truncated-cone-and-hollow-cylinder/4491/9 "2023-10-10T11:49:20Z")
You don’t define a combined clipping volume. Rather, you run the `Clip` filter multiple times and clip away pieces one at a time.