# slicing with a cone (bis)
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/slicing-with-a-cone-bis/9236
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [March 21, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/slicing-with-a-cone-bis/9236 "2022-03-21T16:02:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@laurent\_husson](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/laurent_husson)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/slicing-with-a-cone-bis/9236/1 "2022-03-21T16:02:58Z")
Hello,
I am trying to slice an unstructured VTU grid with a cone. There are already a couple topics on that from 2020, which indicate to “Resample with Dataset”. I tried a range of options without success, for I don’t even manage to load the source. I immediately have the following error message:
ERROR: In /opt/glr/paraview/paraview-ci/build/superbuild/paraview/src/VTK/Common/ExecutionModel/vtkExecutive.cxx, line 753
I tried with dummy files as well and end up with the same error.
Any idea?
many thanks, regards,
Laurent
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### Author:  [@utkarsh.ayachit](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/utkarsh.ayachit)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2022, 4:11pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/slicing-with-a-cone-bis/9236/2 "2022-03-21T16:11:21Z")
Hopefully, the attached video helps:
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### Author:  [@laurent\_husson](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/laurent_husson)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2022, 4:17pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/slicing-with-a-cone-bis/9236/3 "2022-03-21T16:17:09Z")
Thanks so much, I simply misused the dialog box! This is great, thanks! Laurent
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### Author:  [@laurent\_husson](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/laurent_husson)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2022, 5:19pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/slicing-with-a-cone-bis/9236/4 "2022-03-21T17:19:05Z")
Thanks again for your answer.
However, the result is excessively smoothed (unlike when slicing with a Plane or a Sphere with the built-in procedure).
Any hope to get a built-in slicing/clipping with a Cone filter? I know it is on the (long) list of request already!
many thanks for your efforts! Much appreciated!
Laurent
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### Author:  [@utkarsh.ayachit](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/utkarsh.ayachit)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/slicing-with-a-cone-bis/9236/5 "2022-03-21T17:29:12Z")
Try increasing the cone resolution.
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### Author:  [@laurent\_husson](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/laurent_husson)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2022, 5:30pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/slicing-with-a-cone-bis/9236/6 "2022-03-21T17:30:36Z")
i did put it to the max value
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### Author:  [@utkarsh.ayachit](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/utkarsh.ayachit)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2022, 12:41am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/slicing-with-a-cone-bis/9236/7 "2022-03-22T00:41:39Z")
There exists a `vtkCone` implicit function, alas it’s not exposed in ParaView yet. Feel free to report an issue on the issue tracker. That’d allow you to Clip/Slice with a Cone with no under-sampling.