# Dumb Sunpath Question: In general, what are the best/easiest methods for only displaying the data mesh every 5th or Nth day?

**URL:** <https://discourse.ladybug.tools/t/dumb-sunpath-question-in-general-what-are-the-best-easiest-methods-for-only-displaying-the-data-mesh-every-5th-or-nth-day/15692>\
**Category:** ladybug\
**Tags:** ladybug, analysis-period, sunpath\
**Created:** [August 29, 2021, 12:33am UTC](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/t/dumb-sunpath-question-in-general-what-are-the-best-easiest-methods-for-only-displaying-the-data-mesh-every-5th-or-nth-day/15692 "2021-08-29T00:33:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marty](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@Marty](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/u/Marty)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 12:33am UTC](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/t/dumb-sunpath-question-in-general-what-are-the-best-easiest-methods-for-only-displaying-the-data-mesh-every-5th-or-nth-day/15692/1 "2021-08-29T00:33:06Z")

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Hi everybody!

I couldn’t find an obvious solution for this on the forum, so I thought I’d ask while I’m working on it in case someone has an easy method that they can share.

 ![3D Sun Diagram](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/uploads/default/original/3X/a/6/a69040f91980294b4e9b13b2946a8db7ffce86c9.png)

I’m trying to only display the colored meshes for every 5th (or Nth) day so that there will be a gap in between each one, instead of a more or less continuous chain. I’m working on it now, but I thought I’d post this in case anyone has a good way of doing this. Apologies in advance if it’s really simple and obvious 😅 its been a long week.

Best wishes to all,  
Marty

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**Author:** ![Nariman.Rafati](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/user_avatar/discourse.ladybug.tools/nariman.rafati/32/25224_2.png) [@Nariman.Rafati](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/u/Nariman.Rafati)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 4:37pm UTC](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/t/dumb-sunpath-question-in-general-what-are-the-best-easiest-methods-for-only-displaying-the-data-mesh-every-5th-or-nth-day/15692/2 "2021-08-29T16:37:44Z")

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If I understand what you want, you are searching for this.

 ![Sun](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/uploads/default/original/3X/7/7/77e4f77289d219ae037a70b0d356307fac6b5220.png)

Best,  
Nariman

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**Author:** ![Marty](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@Marty](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/u/Marty)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 1:18am UTC](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/t/dumb-sunpath-question-in-general-what-are-the-best-easiest-methods-for-only-displaying-the-data-mesh-every-5th-or-nth-day/15692/3 "2021-08-31T01:18:41Z")

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Precisely! But I’m trying to do it in 1.2 and display the dry bulb temp on those days.

 ![drybulb on 21st of every month in 1.2](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/uploads/default/original/3X/f/9/f9b2c789c0816c69e76e3e10fb443721340743fc.png)

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**Author:** ![chris](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/user_avatar/discourse.ladybug.tools/chris/32/10179_2.png) [@chris](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/u/chris)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 4:26am UTC](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/t/dumb-sunpath-question-in-general-what-are-the-best-easiest-methods-for-only-displaying-the-data-mesh-every-5th-or-nth-day/15692/4 "2021-08-31T04:26:31Z")

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1. Do not connect the analysis periods to a panel before you connect them to the “LB Apply Analysis Period” component.
2. Use the [LB Calculate HOY](https://docs.ladybug.tools/ladybug-primer/components/1_analyzedata/calculate_hoy) component to get the HOYs that you need for the sunpath component.