# Lines outside the box of Axis3 CairoMakie

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lines-outside-the-box-of-axis3-cairomakie/103566>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Created:** [September 6, 2023, 11:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lines-outside-the-box-of-axis3-cairomakie/103566 "2023-09-06T11:03:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Sergey\_Novak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sergey_novak/32/37716_2.png) [@Sergey\_Novak](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Sergey_Novak)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 11:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lines-outside-the-box-of-axis3-cairomakie/103566/1 "2023-09-06T11:03:42Z")

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Hello, i have image:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/2/c/2ce1bfa6d319e18af2e654eadf9c87cef28b213e.png)  
I using xlims and ylims and get image:  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/c/e/ce665653917d7582478f78ab0e3ac417da68e4df.png)  
How can i fix lines which outside the box? Thank you for helps

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**Author:** ![jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 2:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lines-outside-the-box-of-axis3-cairomakie/103566/2 "2023-09-06T14:28:35Z")

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You have to filter out or replace the out-of-bounds points with `NaN`. Axis3 currently does not have any clipping ability.

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**Author:** ![fedoroff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fedoroff/32/53209_2.png) [@fedoroff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fedoroff)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 3:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lines-outside-the-box-of-axis3-cairomakie/103566/3 "2023-09-06T15:20:23Z")

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Any chances of seeing this clipping functionality soon?

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**Author:** ![jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 3:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lines-outside-the-box-of-axis3-cairomakie/103566/4 "2023-09-06T15:38:56Z")

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Not really, clipping in 3d is not trivial for Cairo plots, so it’s not a quick implementation.