# Plot of a FE function without the underlying mesh

**URL:** https://community.freefem.org/t/plot-of-a-fe-function-without-the-underlying-mesh/2720
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [September 22, 2023, 9:12am UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/plot-of-a-fe-function-without-the-underlying-mesh/2720 "2023-09-22T09:12:08Z")
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### Author: ![luca.liverotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/977dab/32.png) [@luca.liverotti](https://community.freefem.org/u/luca.liverotti)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2023, 9:12am UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/plot-of-a-fe-function-without-the-underlying-mesh/2720/1 "2023-09-22T09:12:08Z")

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Hi, I would like to plot a FE function without the background mesh (see attached image to see the background mesh). Is it possible?

Thanks.

[prova.pdf](https://community.freefem.org/uploads/short-url/rwJSl5vEkJeD3KmTbKnF1Z9voNd.pdf) (601.1 KB)

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### Author: ![prj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecae2f/32.png) [@prj](https://community.freefem.org/u/prj)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2023, 9:18am UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/plot-of-a-fe-function-without-the-underlying-mesh/2720/2 "2023-09-22T09:18:58Z")

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Yes, just use the function as the parameter of `plot`, not the mesh itself.

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### Author: ![luca.liverotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/977dab/32.png) [@luca.liverotti](https://community.freefem.org/u/luca.liverotti)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2023, 9:24am UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/plot-of-a-fe-function-without-the-underlying-mesh/2720/3 "2023-09-22T09:24:20Z")

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I’m using this command for the plot and the saving

plot(v, fill = 1, value=1, grey=1 ,ps=“prova.eps”);

and I am not using the mesh as parameter. The issue is that I would like to save a FE function plot without the field of the mesh. I cannot split them and save only the function field.

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### Author: ![marchywka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@marchywka](https://community.freefem.org/u/marchywka)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2023, 9:47am UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/plot-of-a-fe-function-without-the-underlying-mesh/2720/4 "2023-09-22T09:47:50Z")

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IIRC you had to hit “m” or “n” or something in the plot window to get the mesh to show up.  
If you plan on doing a lot of modifications you may be better off saving the  
function and mesh in files and plotting with something else.  
You can iterate over a fine array of points and use ff to interpolate with parens, u(x,y)  
for example.