# Tetrahedra intersection
**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/tetrahedra-intersection/2479
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 22, 2020, 12:31pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/tetrahedra-intersection/2479 "2020-01-22T12:31:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Fabio](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Fabio)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2020, 12:31pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/tetrahedra-intersection/2479/1 "2020-01-22T12:31:39Z")
Hi,
how can I intersect two tetrahedra with vtk?
(if it is possible …)
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### Author:  [@geoffw](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/geoffw)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/tetrahedra-intersection/2479/2 "2020-01-22T16:23:00Z")
Is this what you are looking for?
[https://lorensen.github.io/VTKExamples/site/Cxx/PolyData/BooleanOperationPolyDataFilter/](https://lorensen.github.io/VTKExamples/site/Cxx/PolyData/BooleanOperationPolyDataFilter/)
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/tetrahedra-intersection/2479/3 "2020-01-22T16:33:49Z")
The boolean operations filter works only with 2D elements, not volumetric elements.
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### Author:  [@Fabio](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Fabio)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/tetrahedra-intersection/2479/4 "2020-01-22T16:39:12Z")
Ok, now I know why my experiments failed! 😑
There is an another way to do that?
Thanks
(PS. I work in Python)