# ParaView Cylinder Clip Filter - Controlling Cylinder Position and Height

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**Created:** [November 1, 2023, 3:00pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-cylinder-clip-filter-controlling-cylinder-position-and-height/13154 "2023-11-01T15:00:51Z")
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### Author: ![Kenneth\_Moreland](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/kenneth_moreland/32/15033_2.png) [@Kenneth\_Moreland](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Kenneth_Moreland)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-cylinder-clip-filter-controlling-cylinder-position-and-height/13154/2 "2023-11-01T18:09:33Z")

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As a short answer, you cannot do this. The cylinder for `Clip` is infinite. You cannot specify a fixed-length height.

The straightforward way to clip a limited-depth cylinder is to use a combination of cylinder and plane clips. Here is an example of using a `Clip` to get the data below the Z=3 plane, another to get the data above the Z=3 plane, and a third `Clip` that removes the cylinder from the upper clipped data.

[clip-finite-cylinder.pvsm](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/9TDGFW6jSBPtzDvlQlDLaKtDNFu.pvsm) (706.7 KB)

 ![Screen Shot 2023-11-01 at 1.59.37 PM](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/1/1d348ebac6ddca9d6798618ab9e4dcbf47743605.jpeg)

The disadvantage of this approach is that the cells at the Z=3 plane all get split into 2.

There is some limited support to clip on arbitrary surfaces: [Slice/Clip with a surface](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/slice-clip-with-a-surface/9436). You could potentially create a `Cylinder` source and use that for the clip. But the results do not always look great. In particular, I would expect that you would not see a nice right-angled clip at the base of the cylindrical hole.

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