# How to hide a part of a mesh?

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-hide-a-part-of-a-mesh/5591
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [October 17, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-hide-a-part-of-a-mesh/5591 "2020-10-17T17:01:04Z")
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### Author: ![rosicley](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ecd19e/32.png) [@rosicley](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/rosicley)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-hide-a-part-of-a-mesh/5591/1 "2020-10-17T17:01:04Z")

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I have two files .vtu, one represents a global mesh and the other represents a local mesh that is over the global mesh, as seen in the figure below.

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/6/627e6cf5548d654ea2de356810477cf277c6c3a7.png)

I want to hide the part of the global mesh that is under the local mesh, as it can be seen in the figure below. Is there any way to do this in ParaView?

 ![cutimage](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/5/591f17897bf13af6b7c2a99ac05489407185145f.jpeg)

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### Author: ![rosicley](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ecd19e/32.png) [@rosicley](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/rosicley)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-hide-a-part-of-a-mesh/5591/2 "2020-10-22T20:01:08Z")

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Can someone help me?

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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: [October 23, 2020, 7:44am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-hide-a-part-of-a-mesh/5591/3 "2020-10-23T07:44:25Z")

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Not automatic way to do that, but you can always select the cells you want to hide, invert the selection in Edit -\> FIndData and then use ExtractSelection.