# Surface LIC Representation - Exporting
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/surface-lic-representation-exporting/665
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [October 1, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/surface-lic-representation-exporting/665 "2018-10-01T15:36:47Z")
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### Author:  [@patito](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/patito)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/surface-lic-representation-exporting/665/1 "2018-10-01T15:36:48Z")
I have a velocity vector field in 3D space. I loaded the Surface LIC plugin and I am plotting the velocity field using the Surface LIC representation. I was wondering whether I may be able to export the LIC data and plot it elsewhere, for instance in Matlab? I tried saving it / exporting it directly as a .csv, but instead of exporting the LIC, it’d export the velocity “magnitude” as a scalar (EinLustigerSkalar). I am not sure whether the LIC may be exported since it is a Representation, but was wondering whether there is anyway I can actually get access to and then export the numerical values corresponsding to the LIC to plot them elsewhere? Thanks!
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### Author:  [@utkarsh.ayachit](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/utkarsh.ayachit)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2018, 4:43pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/surface-lic-representation-exporting/665/2 "2018-10-01T16:43:24Z")
I am afraid not. The SurfaceLIC is computed while rendering the surface and there no way to export that from ParaView.
If you’re applying LIC to a 2D image data or structured grid, it is possible to directly use VTK to generate the LIC as dataset that you can then export. See examples/tests for [vtkImageDataLIC2D](https://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkImageDataLIC2D.html) and [vtkStructuredGridLIC2D](https://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkStructuredGridLIC2D.html).