# How to display/plot zone in 3DEC

**URL:** <https://forum.itascainternational.com/t/how-to-display-plot-zone-in-3dec/1640>\
**Category:** 3DEC\
**Created:** [August 20, 2024, 10:00am UTC](https://forum.itascainternational.com/t/how-to-display-plot-zone-in-3dec/1640 "2024-08-20T10:00:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vijaybhvs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f0a364/32.png) [@Vijaybhvs](https://forum.itascainternational.com/u/Vijaybhvs)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 10:00am UTC](https://forum.itascainternational.com/t/how-to-display-plot-zone-in-3dec/1640/1 "2024-08-20T10:00:28Z")

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How to plot a specific zone in 3DEC

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**Author:** ![jhazzard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4af34b/32.png) [@jhazzard](https://forum.itascainternational.com/u/jhazzard)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.itascainternational.com/t/how-to-display-plot-zone-in-3dec/1640/2 "2024-08-20T17:17:20Z")

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Officially, you can’t plot zones (only blocks). However, there is hidden functionality that may work. You need to give a command like this:

```
 plot item create bzone range ...

```

If you try to plot ALL of your zones, it will be very slow, but this can be useful for plotting one or two …

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**Author:** ![Vijaybhvs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f0a364/32.png) [@Vijaybhvs](https://forum.itascainternational.com/u/Vijaybhvs)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2024, 6:26am UTC](https://forum.itascainternational.com/t/how-to-display-plot-zone-in-3dec/1640/3 "2024-08-21T06:26:06Z")

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Thank you for your quick reply, I am able to plot the particular zone using the suggested command.

Regards  
Vijay Sekar