# Removing the partition lines in 3D Paraview plots
**URL:** https://community.freefem.org/t/removing-the-partition-lines-in-3d-paraview-plots/4240
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [March 11, 2026, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/removing-the-partition-lines-in-3d-paraview-plots/4240 "2026-03-11T18:29:56Z")
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### Author:  [@AzizTakhirov](https://community.freefem.org/u/AzizTakhirov)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2026, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/removing-the-partition-lines-in-3d-paraview-plots/4240/1 "2026-03-11T18:29:56Z")
Dear FreeFEM community,
I’m plotting the solution generated by parallel FreeFEM code in 3D. The issue I’m facing is the appearance of partition/boundary lines. In parallel FF tutorial, I learnt that using threshold in paraview, and setting min value = 0 (or -111110) in label would fix the issue. But this seems to work only in 2D, but not in 3D. Of course, one can just generate the global vtu files on rank 0 and avoid this problem.
But I’m wondering if anyone knows of any other fix.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@fb77](https://community.freefem.org/u/fb77)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2026, 9:29am UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/removing-the-partition-lines-in-3d-paraview-plots/4240/2 "2026-03-12T09:29:43Z")
For 2d plots at least in paraview, there is another way to remove the partition lines.
Menu View–\>Light inspector
Uncheck the box “light kit”
I don’t know if it works for 3d plots.
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### Author:  [@AzizTakhirov](https://community.freefem.org/u/AzizTakhirov)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2026, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/removing-the-partition-lines-in-3d-paraview-plots/4240/3 "2026-03-13T14:10:12Z")
Thank you, it worked in 3D as well!