# How to fill the cylinder

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/how-to-fill-the-cylinder/4669
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** proposal
**Created:** [November 16, 2020, 8:53am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/how-to-fill-the-cylinder/4669 "2020-11-16T08:53:54Z")
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### Author: ![wulicheng](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/wulicheng/32/1990_2.png) [@wulicheng](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/wulicheng)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2020, 8:53am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/how-to-fill-the-cylinder/4669/1 "2020-11-16T08:53:54Z")

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This is a hollow cylinder, How to fill it to be a solid cylinder?  
 ![图片](https://discourse.vtk.org/uploads/default/original/2X/6/65031b1c059ff07532f9e685ff438fcac6817f9e.png)

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### Author: ![Joachim\_P](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/joachim_p/32/3272_2.png) [@Joachim\_P](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Joachim_P)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/how-to-fill-the-cylinder/4669/2 "2020-11-19T10:45:57Z")

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If you want to close the cylinder, you can just use the `Capping` property. If you want a volume mesh, you can tessellate this convex domain using `vtkDelaunay3D`.  
Hope this helps.