# Alternative/Backport of vtkPVGridAxes3DActor in VTK

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/alternative-backport-of-vtkpvgridaxes3dactor-in-vtk/11873
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 4, 2023, 11:58am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/alternative-backport-of-vtkpvgridaxes3dactor-in-vtk/11873 "2023-07-04T11:58:53Z")
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### Author: ![BotellaA](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/botellaa/32/1243_2.png) [@BotellaA](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/BotellaA)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2023, 11:58am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/alternative-backport-of-vtkpvgridaxes3dactor-in-vtk/11873/1 "2023-07-04T11:58:54Z")

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I have a VTKWeb workflow and I found the vtkPVGridAxes3DActor that I would like to use.  
Is there a way to use it with only VTK without Paraview?  
Are there other ways to achieve the same feature as vtkPVGridAxes3DActor in VTK?

Thanks for the help!

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### Author: ![Paulo\_Carvalho](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/paulo_carvalho/32/370_2.png) [@Paulo\_Carvalho](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Paulo_Carvalho)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2023, 12:37pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/alternative-backport-of-vtkpvgridaxes3dactor-in-vtk/11873/2 "2023-07-05T12:37:01Z")

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Hello,

Short answer: add a `thirdparty/paraview` directory to your source tree and copy over there the PV’s source files (headers and .cxx files) required by `vtkPVGridAxes3DActor`. Copy all source files starting with `vtkPVGridAxes3DActor.cxx` ([ParaView/Remoting/Views/vtkPVGridAxes3DActor.cxx at master · Kitware/ParaView · GitHub](https://github.com/Kitware/ParaView/blob/master/Remoting/Views/vtkPVGridAxes3DActor.cxx)) and following up the `#include`s until you reach the `.h`s (and their matching `.cxx`s) `#include`ing only VTK headers.

take care,

PC