# Streamlines in spherical coordinates

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/streamlines-in-spherical-coordinates/1427
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [March 8, 2019, 2:41pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/streamlines-in-spherical-coordinates/1427 "2019-03-08T14:41:45Z")
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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: [March 12, 2019, 12:06pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/streamlines-in-spherical-coordinates/1427/4 "2019-03-12T12:06:32Z")

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There is no automatic way to do this yet.  
Some ressources :  
[https://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2010-August/018495.html](https://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2010-August/018495.html)

> [@vector transformation in spherical and Cartesian coordinates](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vector-transformation-in-spherical-and-cartesian-coordinates/262/3):
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> Hi Andy, I have typed the multiply symbol in the calculator filter. I think it is just in this forum the \* symbol is hidden automatically.

> **[Use Paraview to plot vector field in spherical geometry](https://phychai.wordpress.com/2013/08/01/paraview_vectorfield/)**
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> It is easy to use paraview to draw vector fields in a cubic geometry. However, for spherical geometry, it is quite troublesome. This is because the utility glyph only recognize Cartesian coordinate…

> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17375777/cartesian-cylindrical-conversion-in-paraview>

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