# Sharing vtkGlyph3DMapper.

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/sharing-vtkglyph3dmapper/3867
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 28, 2020, 9:12pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/sharing-vtkglyph3dmapper/3867 "2020-07-28T21:12:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Seun](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/seun/32/767_2.png) [@Seun](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Seun)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2020, 9:12pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/sharing-vtkglyph3dmapper/3867/1 "2020-07-28T21:12:32Z")

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Hi everyone,

I’m working with a large set of data (voxels) which I group together and have rendered using vtkGlyph3DMapper attached to an actor in a scene. However, the process of generating these points and creating the Glyph3DMapper can be quite intensive (am handling points within the range of at lease 950,000 ~ 1million voxels). An idea is to create these voxel data, attach to a vtkGlyph3DMapper for i.e a Scene, and other scenes that require displaying these voxel data can reuse the same vtkGlyph3DMapper. Technically the mapper is attached to an Actor in Scene-A, to another actor in Scene B, and C if needed.  
This brings me to my main question, is it possible to do this as I seem to be running into an issue whereby having successfully attached it to Scene A’s actor, trying to do the same for Scene B I get this vtkError message (_attempt to add attribute without a handleless buffer for attribute GCMCMatrix_). I don’t quite understand what this error means, I did have a look briefly at the code. I would appreciate if anyone could give me a hand.

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### Author: ![lassoan](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/lassoan/32/50_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/lassoan)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2020, 1:47am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/sharing-vtkglyph3dmapper/3867/2 "2020-07-29T01:47:58Z")

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You can share data objects, properties, lookup tables, etc., but I don’t think you can share actor or mappers between different renderers.

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### Author: ![Seun](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/seun/32/767_2.png) [@Seun](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Seun)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2020, 1:53am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/sharing-vtkglyph3dmapper/3867/3 "2020-07-29T01:53:39Z")

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Thanks Andras,  
I suspected this was the issue, that probably explains the error I’m getting. I guess in that case the use of different actors that use the same mapper with different renderers wouldn’t work either.
