Visualisation of the magnetic field and column density in the CMZ in our fiducial CHEM_MHD simulation at t = 196 Myr. The со lour-scale represents the total gas column density. The line pattern indicates the orientation of the mass-weighted integrated magnetic field (i.e. 〈B_x〉_ɀê_x + 〈B_y〉_ɀê_y where (X)_ɀ = (∫ρXdz)/(∫ ρ dz) for the xy panel, and analogous definitions for the xz and yz panels) obtained with the line integral convolution method. Movies are available online.