# Water, how to visualize?
**URL:** https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/water-how-to-visualize/22869
**Category:** Modeling Questions
**Created:** [December 6, 2022, 12:19pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/water-how-to-visualize/22869 "2022-12-06T12:19:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Ubbe](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Ubbe)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2022, 12:19pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/water-how-to-visualize/22869/1 "2022-12-06T12:19:20Z")
[Water body.shapr](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/uploads/short-url/iJwpzkb9sQ81ZktH7nlxODwZVVK.shapr) (907.6 KB)…
I have tried to visuailize a vessel floating on water. When I not in the visualization mode it sort of looks ok, but when I go into visualisation, I cannot get any resemblence of water.
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### Author:  [@Timk](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Timk)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2022, 10:06pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/water-how-to-visualize/22869/2 "2022-12-27T22:06:40Z")
Hi Ubbe, I to would be interested in this.
Have you designed many boats on Shapr3D?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@Ubbe](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Ubbe)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2023, 2:43pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/water-how-to-visualize/22869/3 "2023-02-10T14:43:02Z")
Hi Timk
I am on my first boat application and I am not an expert (yet :))
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### Author:  [@Oregonerd](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Oregonerd)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2023, 8:05pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/water-how-to-visualize/22869/4 "2023-02-12T20:05:20Z")
If you make a container for the water, you could try “bumps” in and out of the top surface using the extrusion and fillet tools. Time consuming but could produce a viable result. One of my curves wouldn’t fillet probably because it was too sharp a corner?
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### Author:  [@Oregonerd](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Oregonerd)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/water-how-to-visualize/22869/5 "2023-02-12T20:09:53Z")
This shows a little better how I did it. I swept the oval shapes through the solid container. Added and subtracted them from the surface.
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### Author:  [@Oregonerd](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Oregonerd)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2023, 8:11pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/water-how-to-visualize/22869/6 "2023-02-12T20:11:07Z")
Not great, but a reasonable likeness to water 🥴
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### Author:  [@Ubbe](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Ubbe)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 2:42am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/water-how-to-visualize/22869/7 "2023-02-13T02:42:55Z")
Hi there
Thanks for the effort.
My problem was not the shape itself, but the lack of opacity in the visualization mode.
The water actually looks more “watery” when you leave the visualization and return to the normal mode