# What kind of plane can be used as the input of vtkSelectPolyData?

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/what-kind-of-plane-can-be-used-as-the-input-of-vtkselectpolydata/9687
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**Created:** [October 27, 2022, 9:41am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/what-kind-of-plane-can-be-used-as-the-input-of-vtkselectpolydata/9687 "2022-10-27T09:41:34Z")
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### Author: ![claude](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/0ea827/32.png) [@claude](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/claude)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2022, 9:41am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/what-kind-of-plane-can-be-used-as-the-input-of-vtkselectpolydata/9687/1 "2022-10-27T09:41:34Z")

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Hi ,  
Can plane be used as the input of vtkSelectPolyData? I use vtkPlane as input data of vtkSelectPolyData,but it doesn’t work.What can i do if i want to get an irregular plane from vtkPoints by using vtkSelectPolyData?