# GLMakie, how to set viewing to include points 'outside' the 3D frame
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-how-to-set-viewing-to-include-points-outside-the-3d-frame/125875
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**Created:** [February 13, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-how-to-set-viewing-to-include-points-outside-the-3d-frame/125875 "2025-02-13T18:19:58Z")
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### Author:  [@RobbesU](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/RobbesU)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-how-to-set-viewing-to-include-points-outside-the-3d-frame/125875/1 "2025-02-13T18:19:58Z")
I suspect I’m missing something with the camera settings and/or [clip planes](https://docs.makie.org/stable/reference/generic/clip_planes), but I’ve been messing with them all day and cannot get it.
In GLMakie v0.18 (held back by ModelingToolkitDesigner) I would see 3D points also ‘outside’ the axis box, so I could rotate around and see them from all angles.
To take advantage of 3D zoom & pan, I updated GLMakie to latest v0.11.2 (Makie 0.22.1), now they are being cut off.
MWE to show a very simplistic cut-off. The full application has dynamically moving 3D multi-bodies as `Observable`s updating the plot (achieving ~70Hz), but they ‘wander’ outside the initially defined box in unknown direction. Now the only way to see them is to zoom them back ‘inside’ the box, which ‘views’ wrong.
I suspect I need to set the camera
```julia
using GLMakie # v0.11.2
# define points in space
bodies = [(0,0,0),(1,0,0,),(2,0,0)] .|> GLMakie.Point3f
clrs = [:red, :green, :blue]
# collect the pairs of point locations for the linesegments
lines_vec = [(bodies[i-1], bodies[i]) for i in 2:length(bodies)]
fig = Figure(size=(900,900));
ax = Axis3(fig[1,1], aspect=:equal)
hidespines!(ax)
meshscatter!(ax, bodies, markersize=0.1, color=clrs)
linesegments!(ax, lines_vec, color=clrs[1:length(lines_vec)])
display(fig)
# deliberately limit the axis so one points falls outside
xlims!(ax, high=1.8)
```
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### Author:  [@JonasWickman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/JonasWickman)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-how-to-set-viewing-to-include-points-outside-the-3d-frame/125875/2 "2025-02-13T20:30:50Z")
As best as I can tell, this is resolved by changing the lines that actually plot to:
```julia
meshscatter!(ax, bodies, markersize=0.1, color=clrs, clip_planes = Plane3f[])
linesegments!(ax, lines_vec, color=clrs[1:length(lines_vec)], clip_planes = Plane3f[])
```
Don’t know many details, picked this up when trying to figure out a similar issue and found this: [Clipping defaults changed when upgrading to GLMakie v0.11 [noticed in Brillouin.jl] · Issue #4741 · MakieOrg/Makie.jl · GitHub](https://github.com/MakieOrg/Makie.jl/issues/4741#issuecomment-2600938816)
Edit: It is in the documented attributes for e.g., `meshscatter`:
```julia
clip_planes = automatic — Clip planes offer a way to do clipping in 3D space. You can set a Vector of up to 8 Plane3f planes here, behind which plots will be clipped (i.e. become invisible). By default clip planes
are inherited from the parent plot or scene. You can remove parent clip_planes by passing Plane3f[]
```
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### Author:  [@RobbesU](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/RobbesU)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2025, 6:42am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-how-to-set-viewing-to-include-points-outside-the-3d-frame/125875/3 "2025-02-14T06:42:34Z")
Thank you!.
I went down the Axis(…) and Camera(…) rabit hole, completely misses this.