# Keeping cutting plane stationary while rotating/translating 3D object
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/keeping-cutting-plane-stationary-while-rotating-translating-3d-object/2218
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [July 15, 2019, 2:01am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/keeping-cutting-plane-stationary-while-rotating-translating-3d-object/2218 "2019-07-15T02:01:41Z")
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### Author:  [@fghorow](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/fghorow)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2019, 2:01am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/keeping-cutting-plane-stationary-while-rotating-translating-3d-object/2218/1 "2019-07-15T02:01:41Z")
Hi All,
I have a solid sphere of data and I would like to be able to have a visualization with a stationary cutting plane and the 3D data rotating/translating freely while the cutting plane retains it’s orientation. (Bonus points if I can do this with a box clip, with the box corner at the center of the sphere!)
Is there any way to accomplish this in paraview?
TIA for any help you might be able to provide!
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2019, 8:36am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/keeping-cutting-plane-stationary-while-rotating-translating-3d-object/2218/2 "2019-07-15T08:36:01Z")
Quite a standard usage of ParaView, here is a state file demonstrating it.
[rotatingDataStationaryBox.pvsm](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6e997b60aee6bef265c636e4cc69d01a3d980995.pvsm) (346.6 KB)
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### Author:  [@fghorow](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/fghorow)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2019, 5:49pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/keeping-cutting-plane-stationary-while-rotating-translating-3d-object/2218/3 "2019-07-15T17:49:26Z")
Many thanks for that demo Mathieu!
It took me some time to realize that this was an animation.
Is it possible for the user to grab the volume data with the mouse and rotate it that way? The way it’s currently configured, if I drag the volume data, the clip box rotates with it.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2019, 5:55pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/keeping-cutting-plane-stationary-while-rotating-translating-3d-object/2218/4 "2019-07-15T17:55:52Z")
Sorry, I should have precised that.
Sure, it is quite easy, just click on the “Transform” filter in the pipeline browser and grab the box widget.
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### Author:  [@fghorow](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/fghorow)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2019, 5:57pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/keeping-cutting-plane-stationary-while-rotating-translating-3d-object/2218/5 "2019-07-15T17:57:00Z")
Got it! Thank you VERY much! Your help is greatly appreciated!