# Paraview Mesh Quality

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-mesh-quality/6308
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [January 27, 2021, 5:00am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-mesh-quality/6308 "2021-01-27T05:00:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Jie](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@Jie](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Jie)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 5:00am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-mesh-quality/6308/1 "2021-01-27T05:00:20Z")

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Hello, when I use mesh quality and then use histogram, what does its abscissa mean? The starting values of different models are different, some start from 1, some from 0. thank you!

 ![1](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/f/fc48170ac1c6e86e6fb42ad4498cc799970a33e7.png) ![2](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/5/582d3892279a720f59f31c4bd25d0fe3caff532b.png)

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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: [January 27, 2021, 9:25am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-mesh-quality/6308/2 "2021-01-27T09:25:33Z")

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In your first image, the absissa is the bin extents as defined in your histogram filter.

In the second screenshot, no idea, but you can take a look yourself by checking the “X array axis” in the properties panel.

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### Author: ![Jie](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@Jie](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Jie)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 9:57am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-mesh-quality/6308/3 "2021-01-27T09:57:02Z")

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Thank you. It seems that meshquality \> threshold is better. The smaller the value is, the worse the mesh quality is?

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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: [January 27, 2021, 10:06am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-mesh-quality/6308/4 "2021-01-27T10:06:00Z")

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It depends on the properties you choose on the mesh quality filter

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### Author: ![Jie](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@Jie](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Jie)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 10:15am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-mesh-quality/6308/5 "2021-01-27T10:15:22Z")

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OK, thank you very much!