# Paraview crashes when slicing data

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-slicing-data/16191
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [February 18, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-slicing-data/16191 "2025-02-18T14:58:22Z")
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### Author: ![Nabil](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e79b87/32.png) [@Nabil](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Nabil)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-slicing-data/16191/1 "2025-02-18T14:58:22Z")

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Hi there,  
I am using paraview version 5.13.1 and the it keeps crashing everytime i tried to slice my data in the z-direction to represent my data in a 2D plane. What can i do to solve this ? Do i need to install the latest version ?

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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: [February 19, 2025, 9:03am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-slicing-data/16191/2 "2025-02-19T09:03:35Z")

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Hi @Nabil

Please share your data

Best,

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### Author: ![Nabil](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e79b87/32.png) [@Nabil](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Nabil)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2025, 10:54am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-slicing-data/16191/3 "2025-02-19T10:54:47Z")

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[BACKGROUND\_0091.vtu](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/A9c6fqOvukaZ8XvEiHa3Av6amNU.vtu) (55.0 KB)

I’ve already changed my results from cell data to point data during post processing in paraview.

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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: [February 19, 2025, 10:57am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-slicing-data/16191/4 "2025-02-19T10:57:55Z")

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Your dataset seems to have errors in the cell definition.

ParaView 5.13 does not crash on slice but the result is incorrect:

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/3X/0/b/0b065df40c9dbffb53b7a647a678f070693a1b37.png)

You need to fix your dataset.

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### Author: ![Nabil](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e79b87/32.png) [@Nabil](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Nabil)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2025, 11:00am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-slicing-data/16191/5 "2025-02-19T11:00:35Z")

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I did get that kind of results before using the cell data to point data filter. But after using the filter, paraview just crashed.

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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: [February 19, 2025, 11:02am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-slicing-data/16191/6 "2025-02-19T11:02:09Z")

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Indeed, I reproduce the crash, please open an issue: [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues)

In any case, you do need to fix the dataset 🙂

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### Author: ![Nabil](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e79b87/32.png) [@Nabil](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Nabil)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2025, 11:03am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-slicing-data/16191/7 "2025-02-19T11:03:48Z")

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I see. Thank you for your help. I really appreciate it.