# Rename Plot over Intersection Curves
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/rename-plot-over-intersection-curves/6622
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [March 4, 2021, 10:43pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/rename-plot-over-intersection-curves/6622 "2021-03-04T22:43:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2021, 10:43pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/rename-plot-over-intersection-curves/6622/1 "2021-03-04T22:43:32Z")
Should we rename Plot over Intersection Curves? The name just doesn’t describe what the filter does.
How about Plot over Intersection Surface? Or, Plot over Surface?
@Kenneth_Moreland @cory.quammen @utkarsh.ayachit
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### Author:  [@utkarsh.ayachit](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/utkarsh.ayachit)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2021, 11:01pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/rename-plot-over-intersection-curves/6622/2 "2021-03-04T23:01:22Z")
It doesn’t plot over a surface though. It intersects two surfaces, the external surface of the input dataset and a plane. This intersection yields a curve. The filter then plots data variables on this curve.
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2021, 11:41pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/rename-plot-over-intersection-curves/6622/3 "2021-03-04T23:41:54Z")
What you say makes sense. Not one of my best ideas, I would say… I still find the filter name to be confusing…
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### Author:  [@Kenneth\_Moreland](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Kenneth_Moreland)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2021, 12:26am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/rename-plot-over-intersection-curves/6622/4 "2021-03-05T00:26:03Z")
What about Plot Over Surface Intersection?
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2021, 2:33am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/rename-plot-over-intersection-curves/6622/5 "2021-03-05T02:33:25Z")
I like what Ken says … It does mean that this filter won’t work plotting 1d lines, but I’m OK with that.
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2021, 3:19am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/rename-plot-over-intersection-curves/6622/6 "2021-03-05T03:19:47Z")
Alterntively, how about Plot over Intersection Edges?
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/rename-plot-over-intersection-curves/6622/7 "2021-03-05T14:59:38Z")
Let’s fix up the filter first and then consider renaming after its functionality is settled. There is a list of implicit functions available for the intersection besides plane that don’t seem to work. We should either make them work or get rid of them. The name of the filter might depend on that decision.
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### Author:  [@utkarsh.ayachit](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/utkarsh.ayachit)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/rename-plot-over-intersection-curves/6622/8 "2021-03-05T15:14:11Z")
> [@cory.quammen](#):
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> There is a list of implicit functions available for the intersection besides plane that don’t seem to work.
That’s a bug. IIRC, it was only intended to work with planes. I suspect some other changes caused the other implicit functions to show up.
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### Author:  [@randomwangran](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/randomwangran)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2021, 6:07pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/rename-plot-over-intersection-curves/6622/9 "2021-03-05T18:07:35Z")
How about making the new filter as an alias instead of deletion of the old? It’s some time confused the old user.
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2021, 2:30am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/rename-plot-over-intersection-curves/6622/10 "2021-03-09T02:30:56Z")
Agreed, lets decide on the name after we know what this filter does. Makes total sense.