# Scaling a rendering scene

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/scaling-a-rendering-scene/173
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 30, 2019, 5:42pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/scaling-a-rendering-scene/173 "2019-01-30T17:42:34Z")
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### Author: ![allison.vacanti](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/allison.vacanti/32/679_2.png) [@allison.vacanti](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/allison.vacanti)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2019, 7:46pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/scaling-a-rendering-scene/173/7 "2019-02-12T19:46:14Z")

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There are a few other ways that might fix that. I’m not sure which is best for your usecase, but these are the things I’d try next:

1. `vtkCubeAxesActor.SetUse2DMode(1)`. IIRC, this should render the labels in the overlay plane, which won’t be affected by the camera’s transforms. (Right now it’s rendering them as 3D geometry, so they get affected by transforms).
2. Go back to scaling actors (also repositioning if needed), and tell the `vtkCubeAxesActor` to use the original bounds of the actor as labels (`vtkActor.GetBounds()` and `vtkCubeAxesActor.Set[XYZ]AxisRange`).

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