# Show the cage axes

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/show-the-cage-axes/216
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 5, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/show-the-cage-axes/216 "2019-02-05T16:08:06Z")
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### Author: ![cimo](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@cimo](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/cimo)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/show-the-cage-axes/216/1 "2019-02-05T16:08:07Z")

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Hello!

I would like to display CubAxes of an object. For that I used vtkCubeAxesActor and I would like to display the static axes on all the edges (figure for example).

using vtkCubeAxesActor calss ------\>

 ![dynamic_axes](https://discourse.vtk.org/uploads/default/original/1X/44d7fd236322f1fa6f31395c190335e710370208.png)  
 ![axe_cage](https://discourse.vtk.org/uploads/default/original/1X/af0a64e8a6a504239c49a043c0991bd22cb4f5ca.png)  
Any idea?  
Thanks,  
Cimo,

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### Author: ![cimo](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@cimo](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/cimo)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/show-the-cage-axes/216/2 "2019-02-06T15:50:14Z")

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finally I’ll settle for the static mod: axes\_actor-\> SetFlyModeToStaticEdges ();

 ![axes_result](https://discourse.vtk.org/uploads/default/original/1X/f388d62c6bdf0ce017955ee5efa10c2082580e8b.png)  
c.