# View Stuck in Plan View
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/view-stuck-in-plan-view/1508
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [March 22, 2019, 1:21am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/view-stuck-in-plan-view/1508 "2019-03-22T01:21:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@fanfan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/fanfan)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2019, 1:21am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/view-stuck-in-plan-view/1508/1 "2019-03-22T01:21:18Z")
Hi,
For some reason, after plotting a 3d point data set, at certain times, the view gets stuck in plane view and i cannot rotate with the mouse anymore. I can still view from different sides, top, bottom etc. any idea how to change this?
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2019, 9:54am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/view-stuck-in-plan-view/1508/2 "2019-03-22T09:54:50Z")
@fanfan said :
> I solved the issue for some reason it was setting to 2D when pressing apply for filters
This is a typical issue and we should improve user interface here.
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### Author:  [@fanfan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/fanfan)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/view-stuck-in-plan-view/1508/3 "2019-03-22T15:24:17Z")
now i know how to solve this problem but it cause me to force paraview to stop and restart many times. usually happens when doing table to points.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 12:31pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/view-stuck-in-plan-view/1508/4 "2019-03-25T12:31:56Z")
This is not supposed to happen. If you have a crash or a hang, please provide steps to reproduce.
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 6:06pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/view-stuck-in-plan-view/1508/5 "2019-03-25T18:06:37Z")
What is happening (black box explination here - I have not been in the code) is that Paraview finds a dataset that has variable X, Y and/or Z in two axes. The third axis has non variation - i.e., the data is in a plane. It then moves into 2d mode (as you found). This is causing issues in some cases, for instance if you have a thin flat plate, and then at time not 0, fire a bullet into it. This has been written up here: [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/17466](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/17466) and is under development. Hopefully, it will make ParaView 5.7, but we will see.