diff --git a/src/Mod/Fem/Gui/ViewProviderFemMesh.h b/src/Mod/Fem/Gui/ViewProviderFemMesh.h
index 7fde46fa1..223a772e9 100755
--- a/src/Mod/Fem/Gui/ViewProviderFemMesh.h
+++ b/src/Mod/Fem/Gui/ViewProviderFemMesh.h
@@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ public:
 	void resetColorByNodeId(void);
 	//@}
 
+    const std::vector<unsigned long> &getVisibleElementFaces(void)const{return vFaceElementIdx;}
+
 
     PyObject *getPyObject();
 
diff --git a/src/Mod/Fem/Gui/ViewProviderFemMeshPy.xml b/src/Mod/Fem/Gui/ViewProviderFemMeshPy.xml
index b40c8c812..37085dbde 100644
--- a/src/Mod/Fem/Gui/ViewProviderFemMeshPy.xml
+++ b/src/Mod/Fem/Gui/ViewProviderFemMeshPy.xml
@@ -22,15 +22,21 @@
     </Methode>
       <Attribute Name="NodeColor" ReadOnly="false">
           <Documentation>
-              <UserDocu>Pose of Axis 1 in degrees</UserDocu>
+              <UserDocu>Postprocessing color of the the nodes. The faces between the nodes gets interpolated. </UserDocu>
           </Documentation>
           <Parameter Name="NodeColor" Type="Dict"/>
       </Attribute>
       <Attribute Name="HighlightedNodes" ReadOnly="false">
           <Documentation>
-              <UserDocu>Pose of Axis 1 in degrees</UserDocu>
+              <UserDocu>List of nodes which gets highlighted</UserDocu>
           </Documentation>
           <Parameter Name="HighlightedNodes" Type="List"/>
       </Attribute>
+      <Attribute Name="VisibleElementFaces" ReadOnly="true">
+          <Documentation>
+              <UserDocu>A List of elements and faces which are actually shown. This are all surface faces of the mesh</UserDocu>
+          </Documentation>
+          <Parameter Name="VisibleElementFaces" Type="List"/>
+      </Attribute>
   </PythonExport>
 </GenerateModel>
diff --git a/src/Mod/Fem/Gui/ViewProviderFemMeshPyImp.cpp b/src/Mod/Fem/Gui/ViewProviderFemMeshPyImp.cpp
index 1de796d15..5d35195e4 100644
--- a/src/Mod/Fem/Gui/ViewProviderFemMeshPyImp.cpp
+++ b/src/Mod/Fem/Gui/ViewProviderFemMeshPyImp.cpp
@@ -66,6 +66,22 @@ void  ViewProviderFemMeshPy::setHighlightedNodes(Py::List arg)
 
 }
 
+Py::List ViewProviderFemMeshPy::getVisibleElementFaces(void) const
+{
+    const std::vector<unsigned long> & visElmFc = this->getViewProviderFemMeshPtr()->getVisibleElementFaces();
+    Py::List result( visElmFc.size() );
+
+    int i = 0;
+    for (std::vector<unsigned long>::const_iterator it = visElmFc.begin();it!=visElmFc.end();++it,i++){
+        Py::Tuple tup(2);
+
+        tup.setItem( 0,Py::Int((long)*it>>3) );
+        tup.setItem( 1,Py::Int((long)(*it&7)+1) );
+        result.setItem(i,tup);
+    }
+
+    return result;
+}
 
 
 PyObject *ViewProviderFemMeshPy::getCustomAttributes(const char* /*attr*/) const