# Zoom to Selection or zoom to element
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/zoom-to-selection-or-zoom-to-element/656
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [September 28, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/zoom-to-selection-or-zoom-to-element/656 "2018-09-28T18:11:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@DennisConklin](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/DennisConklin)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/zoom-to-selection-or-zoom-to-element/656/1 "2018-09-28T18:11:29Z")
Let’s say I want to zoom into Element 51476 (for whatever reason, I want to examine it).
The only way I know to do this now is:
1. Find Data with Query = GlobalElementId == 51476
2. Extract Selection - Apply
3. Mostly the Extract Selection is not visible (v5.4.1) but it’s input still is so:
a. Turn visibility of FInd Data input object Off
b. Turn visibility of Extract selection On
Select Extract Selection in tree and zoom to data
What I actually want is something simple that will zoom to element 51476, without affecting the pipeline tree or the visibility of other objects.
Cubit has a “zoom element 51476” command and I’d like something like that.
Any ideas??
Dennis
What I really want is just something which will visually zoom into
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2018, 6:32pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/zoom-to-selection-or-zoom-to-element/656/2 "2018-09-28T18:32:57Z")
How about something more generic, such as Zoom to Selection? We already have Reset (which is zoom to extents), Zoom to Data (I dislike the name - should be Zoom to Filter Data), how about a 3rd?
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2018, 7:04pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/zoom-to-selection-or-zoom-to-element/656/3 "2018-09-28T19:04:34Z")
I wrote it up here: [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/18500](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/18500). Thanks for the idea.
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### Author:  [@DennisConklin](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/DennisConklin)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2018, 7:04pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/zoom-to-selection-or-zoom-to-element/656/4 "2018-09-28T19:04:43Z")
I agree, Zoom to Selection would be extremely useful and would fulfill this need with just a preceding Selection step
Dennis
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### Author:  [@DennisConklin](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/DennisConklin)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2018, 7:05pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/zoom-to-selection-or-zoom-to-element/656/5 "2018-09-28T19:05:47Z")
I would really like “Zoom to Selection” added to the Find Data dialog - that is becoming my go-to way of doing all things dealing with Selection
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/zoom-to-selection-or-zoom-to-element/656/6 "2018-09-28T19:12:20Z")
The way I wrote the bug, it will be yet another icon on the main screen. This would work when the Find Data dialog is up. Any objections? I would rather that the Find Data didn’t get even more complicated, and I would rather that we didn’t “hide” this feature in the Find Data (since since selections are usually done on the top of the main view).