# How to display DSM as it appears in the quality report?

**URL:** https://community.pix4d.com/t/how-to-display-dsm-as-it-appears-in-the-quality-report/2762
**Category:** PIX4Dmapper Questions/Troubleshooting
**Created:** [December 20, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://community.pix4d.com/t/how-to-display-dsm-as-it-appears-in-the-quality-report/2762 "2016-12-20T01:37:58Z")
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### Author: ![Hui\_Li](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/58f4c7/32.png) [@Hui\_Li](https://community.pix4d.com/u/Hui_Li)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://community.pix4d.com/t/how-to-display-dsm-as-it-appears-in-the-quality-report/2762/1 "2016-12-20T01:37:58Z")

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Dear Support:

I find the DSM generated in the quality report is very beautiful (as follows), and I&nbsp;like to add it into my paper, however there is no legend, north arrow and scale bar in the DSM, which are required to make a complete map.

I&nbsp;then try to add all the elements in a GIS software (ArcMap), but the DSM can’t be displayed in the way that shows in the report in ArcMap. I&nbsp;know there must be some complex algorithms to render the DSM in Pix4d.

Could you be kind enough to tell me a little bit about the algorithm or suggest some references or software that can display DSM in that wonderful way?

Thanks very much and looking forwards to your reply!

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### Author: ![Bob\_van\_der\_Meij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Bob\_van\_der\_Meij](https://community.pix4d.com/u/Bob_van_der_Meij)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2017, 10:08am UTC](https://community.pix4d.com/t/how-to-display-dsm-as-it-appears-in-the-quality-report/2762/2 "2017-02-27T10:08:27Z")

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Have you tried to visualize it using shadows? I reckon a substantial amount of the DSMs appearance in the report borrows from shadows being visualized, hereby rendering it more 3D-ish compared to regular DSM viewing.

I know you can visualize using shadows using both Qgis or ArcMap, but I am not entirely sure if you can combine shadow visualization with a custom color scheme.

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