# How to add a reference plane(background grid)?

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/how-to-add-a-reference-plane-background-grid/11560
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 29, 2023, 8:11am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/how-to-add-a-reference-plane-background-grid/11560 "2023-05-29T08:11:59Z")
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### Author: ![AlexLuya](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/alexluya/32/4036_2.png) [@AlexLuya](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/AlexLuya)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2023, 8:11am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/how-to-add-a-reference-plane-background-grid/11560/1 "2023-05-29T08:11:59Z")

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Hello,I found an image in:[MPM Landslide - DS Use Case Products](https://www.designsafe-ci.org/ds-use-case/kumar/usecase/)

 ![paraview-viz](https://discourse.vtk.org/uploads/default/original/2X/3/32b39ae89f01bd2da758af98179aca42573e5ec8.jpeg)

Obviously,in ParaView,a reference plane(background grid) is added.I can do same thing by adding a vtkPlane,but it’s size is limited no matter how large it is.

In some application like blender,the reference grid(background grid) is endless,questions are:

1,How to add an endless reference plane into scene?

2,If impossible,is it the vtkPlane only way to mimic it?

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/mwestphal/32/19_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2023, 7:37am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/how-to-add-a-reference-plane-background-grid/11560/2 "2023-05-30T07:37:22Z")

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> [@AlexLuya](#):
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> How to add an endless reference plane into scene?

Not possible

> If impossible,is it the vtkPlane only way to mimic it?

AxesGrid and DataAxesGrid should be able to help a bit.

BTW ParaView question goes there: [https://discourse.paraview.org/](https://discourse.paraview.org/)