# some points only seen in PointGaussian and 3DGlyphs but not in other representations

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/some-points-only-seen-in-pointgaussian-and-3dglyphs-but-not-in-other-representations/15943
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [January 3, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/some-points-only-seen-in-pointgaussian-and-3dglyphs-but-not-in-other-representations/15943 "2025-01-03T23:26:38Z")
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### Author: ![fromagebleu](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/fromagebleu/32/15748_2.png) [@fromagebleu](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/fromagebleu)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/some-points-only-seen-in-pointgaussian-and-3dglyphs-but-not-in-other-representations/15943/1 "2025-01-03T23:26:38Z")

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Hello Community! I am new to PV and was trying to render a vtk file, and was wondering why I can not see some of points in representations that are not point gaussians and 3dGlyphs… any help?

> **[state\_00001700.vtp](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AWfqrSy2wzkbSTvI0876TrpSS72IeBeP/view?usp=drive_link)**
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> Google Drive file.

here’s the file I am wrestling with, file’s a bit big(12mb) so uploading a Googledrive link as the board won’t allow me to upload the file directly here

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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 6, 2025, 8:56am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/some-points-only-seen-in-pointgaussian-and-3dglyphs-but-not-in-other-representations/15943/2 "2025-01-06T08:56:13Z")

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Most representations only display cells, even representations dedicated to points.  
The exception are point gaussian and 3D glyphs.

In any case, a workaround is too use the “ConvertToPointCloud” filter, that will generate a “vertex” cell for each point.

hth,