# How to make interactive clip plane widget is visible while hide properties panel
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-make-interactive-clip-plane-widget-is-visible-while-hide-properties-panel/9255
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [March 22, 2022, 11:51pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-make-interactive-clip-plane-widget-is-visible-while-hide-properties-panel/9255 "2022-03-22T23:51:11Z")
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### Author:  [@sharon](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/sharon)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2022, 11:51pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-make-interactive-clip-plane-widget-is-visible-while-hide-properties-panel/9255/1 "2022-03-22T23:51:11Z")
I found when i close properties panel, the interactive clip plane widget will hide, too. which is not what i expected.
what i want is close properties panel, and make interactive clip plane widget visible, how to do it?
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2022, 10:03am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-make-interactive-clip-plane-widget-is-visible-while-hide-properties-panel/9255/2 "2022-03-23T10:03:25Z")
This is definitely an usability bug. Could you open an issue on: [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues)
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### Author:  [@sharon](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/sharon)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2022, 2:39am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-make-interactive-clip-plane-widget-is-visible-while-hide-properties-panel/9255/3 "2022-03-26T02:39:20Z")
Thank you Mathieu for your replay,
I submit an issue:
[https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/21332](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/21332)