# The size of non-spherical particles shown in Paraview is not the size of real particles.
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/the-size-of-non-spherical-particles-shown-in-paraview-is-not-the-size-of-real-particles/12684
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** vtk
**Created:** [August 11, 2023, 6:33am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/the-size-of-non-spherical-particles-shown-in-paraview-is-not-the-size-of-real-particles/12684 "2023-08-11T06:33:13Z")
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### Author:  [@Xie](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Xie)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2023, 6:33am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/the-size-of-non-spherical-particles-shown-in-paraview-is-not-the-size-of-real-particles/12684/1 "2023-08-11T06:33:13Z")
Hello, teachers, I want to ask you a question. I import the.vtp file, and the size of the non-spherical particles shown in paraview is different from the actual particle size. Ask the teachers how to operate to make the particle size consistent. Thank you!
 This is the particle in paraview.
 This is the actual particle.
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### Author:  [@utkarsh.ayachit](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/utkarsh.ayachit)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2023, 11:49am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/the-size-of-non-spherical-particles-shown-in-paraview-is-not-the-size-of-real-particles/12684/2 "2023-08-11T11:49:06Z")
Looks like whatever tool exported this file, indeed exported those sizes for the particles. `.vtp` is used for surface meshes, so I’d guess that is indeed the mesh that has been saved to the file. Maybe there’s some variable in the mesh to be used to transform the “particles” further. Can you share the dataset? That’ll make it easier.
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### Author:  [@Xie](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Xie)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2023, 7:34am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/the-size-of-non-spherical-particles-shown-in-paraview-is-not-the-size-of-real-particles/12684/3 "2023-08-13T07:34:30Z")
Thank you for your reply！@Utkarsh Ayachit
This is the data shown in paraview.
[Superquadric\_visulization\_paraview\_plugin.xml](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/llEvgKhdLgrxqAkESwBVPxe2kKt.xml) (10.3 KB)
[PARTICLES\_0019.vtp](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/gxmXGiJSiwj4GNfkOonEs0jyYkz.vtp) (4.0 MB)
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### Author:  [@utkarsh.ayachit](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/utkarsh.ayachit)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2023, 1:27pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/the-size-of-non-spherical-particles-shown-in-paraview-is-not-the-size-of-real-particles/12684/4 "2023-08-16T13:27:51Z")
Do you have the state file for details of the pipeline for this visualization? That’ll make it easier for me reproduce the state. In any case, since you’re using a plugin that uses glyphing, you can play with the input parameters for the source/superquadric to adjust their size to your linking.
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### Author:  [@Xie](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Xie)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2023, 2:08pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/the-size-of-non-spherical-particles-shown-in-paraview-is-not-the-size-of-real-particles/12684/5 "2023-08-16T14:08:46Z")
Thank you for your help! @utkarsh.ayachit
Currently, non-spherical particles cannot be displayed in Paraview, so an. xml file needs to be imported to achieve the display of non-spherical particles. But the displayed non-spherical particles are different from the actual size. I don 't know how to adjust the size of the particles in paraview, is it necessary to import some files？Thank you！