# Using SurfaceLIC after version 5.12

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/using-surfacelic-after-version-5-12/17083
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [August 15, 2025, 12:32pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/using-surfacelic-after-version-5-12/17083 "2025-08-15T12:32:05Z")
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### Author: ![Rafa](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e495f1/32.png) [@Rafa](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Rafa)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2025, 12:32pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/using-surfacelic-after-version-5-12/17083/1 "2025-08-15T12:32:05Z")

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I would like to continue updating my paraview versions (especially for usage with updated python versions) and I use SurfaceLIC a lot. However, the plugin for enabling the visualisation with SurfaceLIC seems to be unavailable (in both 5.13 and 6.0). I assume the process of enabling this feature has changed - could you please point me in the right direction?

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### Author: ![cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/cory.quammen/32/11193_2.png) [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/using-surfacelic-after-version-5-12/17083/2 "2025-08-15T13:48:25Z")

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Hi @Rafa, the SurfaceLIC plugin was promoted to being a regular feature in ParaView 5.13. You don’t need to enable it to use it - the SurfaceLIC representation will just be available.

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### Author: ![cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/cory.quammen/32/11193_2.png) [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2025, 1:51pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/using-surfacelic-after-version-5-12/17083/3 "2025-08-15T13:51:46Z")

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By the way, I double checked our release notes for 5.13 and this change was mentioned, but it was fairly hidden among a list of removals: [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/blob/master/Documentation/release/ParaView-5.13.0.md?ref\_type=heads#removals](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/blob/master/Documentation/release/ParaView-5.13.0.md?ref_type=heads#removals)

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### Author: ![Rafa](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e495f1/32.png) [@Rafa](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Rafa)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2025, 12:36pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/using-surfacelic-after-version-5-12/17083/4 "2025-08-18T12:36:36Z")

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Thanks @cory.quammen !  
I am sorry I didnt spot that in the release notes, but thanks for the heads up.  
It appears my issue was linked to how my data was getting loaded. By default, on the later versions, I was not loading the point-data needed (only cell-data). Once this was sorted, I can generate the visualisations I was looking for. Completely mea culpa…

Thanks again for the support.