# How to hide particles？

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-hide-particles/15660
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** vtk
**Created:** [October 30, 2024, 3:00pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-hide-particles/15660 "2024-10-30T15:00:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Guanlong](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/82dd89/32.png) [@Guanlong](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Guanlong)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2024, 3:00pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-hide-particles/15660/1 "2024-10-30T15:00:52Z")

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How are you, researchers. How can I hide the selected particles? For example, the particles within the rectangle shown in the figure below. I provided the VTK file of the particles. Please give the relevant operation process. Thank you very much.

 ![1730300154906](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/b/b7eab692e10d93e45c0f06f1ba93d59c0350fca9.png)  
[Particle files.zip](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/62P5APgE5FkoBpwP1wqAg31WOX5.zip) (3.4 MB)

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### Author: ![nicolas.vuaille](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/nicolas.vuaille/32/5873_2.png) [@nicolas.vuaille](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/nicolas.vuaille)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2024, 3:30pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-hide-particles/15660/2 "2024-10-30T15:30:48Z")

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The `Find Data` allows you to `Invert` the selection. Then you can `Extract Selection`, resulting in your data less the initial selection.

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### Author: ![Guanlong](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/82dd89/32.png) [@Guanlong](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Guanlong)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2024, 2:11am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-hide-particles/15660/3 "2024-10-31T02:11:28Z")

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I have learned, thank you very much.