# How to select data on a certain surface

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-select-data-on-a-certain-surface/10361
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [September 20, 2022, 2:29pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-select-data-on-a-certain-surface/10361 "2022-09-20T14:29:19Z")
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### Author: ![Miraboreasau](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Miraboreasau](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Miraboreasau)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2022, 2:29pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-select-data-on-a-certain-surface/10361/1 "2022-09-20T14:29:19Z")

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Hello, I have a box, and inside the box, there is a spherical surface (The inner boundary). I applied pressure to the node on this surface

Can anyone help me with how to use the data filter to only see the data for the point on the inner boundary in the vtu file?  
Here is my gmesh file, the surface is called my inner surface

[New Text Document.txt](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/4YSwD0ylk3hc5B9csHUq3EoINv6.txt) (397 Bytes)

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### Author: ![Miraboreasau](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Miraboreasau](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Miraboreasau)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2022, 2:00pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-select-data-on-a-certain-surface/10361/2 "2022-09-21T14:00:21Z")

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Here is the link of dropbox to download the vtu example

> **[20\_Run\_1\_femdem.r3m\_basic\_15000.vtu](https://www.dropbox.com/s/mfwg2i39sgvs7ck/20_Run_1_femdem.r3m_basic_15000.vtu?dl=0)**
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> Shared with Dropbox