# How to create the surface of a point cloud object?

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-create-the-surface-of-a-point-cloud-object/1051
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [December 17, 2018, 1:55am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-create-the-surface-of-a-point-cloud-object/1051 "2018-12-17T01:55:04Z")
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### Author: ![cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/cory.quammen/32/11193_2.png) [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-create-the-surface-of-a-point-cloud-object/1051/2 "2018-12-17T14:28:31Z")

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ParaView has very limited tools for surface reconstruction from point clouds. You can apply the **Delaunay 3D** filter to create an unstructured mesh from the points and then extract the surface with the **Extract Surface** filter, but that works only if your object is convex.

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