<div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div><span>Hi Bill,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431173603378_56071"><span></span><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431173603378_55708" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431173603378_55707">I edited my post shortly after I wrote it because I was able to get the vtkPolyData object from my actor.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431173603378_55704" dir="ltr"><span></span><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431173603378_55706" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431173603378_55705">However I could not find the SetInput() method for the writer, so I tried SetInputData.  This crashes the Java virtual machine.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431173603378_55339" dir="ltr"><span></span><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431173603378_55701" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431173603378_55700">I will try to understand your C++ code sample, but Java is very different, and it seems that not all C++ methods are exposed to Java.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431173603378_55702" dir="ltr"><span></span><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431173603378_55703" dir="ltr"><span>Thanks for the help.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431173603378_55709" dir="ltr"><span>Kent</span></div>  <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Saturday, May 9, 2015 12:07 PM, Bill Lorensen [via VTK] <<a href="/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5731861&i=0" target="_top" rel="nofollow" link="external">[hidden email]</a>> wrote:<br> </font> </div>  <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv4014349576"><div>

        Here is what I do in C++:
<br clear="none">vtkSmartPointer<vtkActorCollection> actors =
<br clear="none">    vtkSmartPointer<vtkActorCollection>::New();
<br clear="none">  actors = renderer->GetActors();
<br clear="none">  actors->InitTraversal();
<br clear="none">  for (vtkIdType a = 0; a < actors->GetNumberOfItems(); ++a)
<br clear="none">    {
<br clear="none">    vtkActor * actor = actors->GetNextActor();
<br clear="none">    vtkPolyData *pd = vtkPolyData::SafeDownCast(actor->GetMapper()->GetInput());
<br clear="none">    vtkSmartPointer<vtkCleanPolyData> clean =
<br clear="none">      vtkSmartPointer<vtkCleanPolyData>::New();
<br clear="none">    clean->SetInputData(pd);
<br clear="none">    vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataNormals> normals =
<br clear="none">      vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataNormals>::New();
<br clear="none">    normals->SetInputConnection(clean->GetOutputPort());
<br clear="none">    normals->Update();
<br clear="none">    vtkPolyDataMapper *mapper =
<br clear="none">vtkPolyDataMapper::SafeDownCast(actor->GetMapper());
<br clear="none">    mapper->SetInputData(normals->GetOutput());
<br clear="none">    }
<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 2:48 PM, kent myers via vtkusers
<br clear="none"><<a href="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_top" link="external">[hidden email]</a>> wrote:
<div class="yiv4014349576shrinkable-quote"><div class='shrinkable-quote'><br clear="none">> I am trying to export a vtkPolyData object to a vtp file using
<br clear="none">> vtkXMLPolyDataWriter.  The online VTK documentation says to use the
<br clear="none">> writer.SetInput() method that takes a vtkPolyData object.
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<br clear="none">> I am having some problems with this strategy:
<br clear="none">> 1. I can get the vtkMapper object from my vtkActor, but the vtkMapper object
<br clear="none">> has no GetInput() method to retrieve a vtkPolyData object (or any other
<br clear="none">> method)
<br clear="none">> 2. vtkXMLPolyDataWriter has no SetInput() method (or any other method) to
<br clear="none">> pass the vtkPolyData object even if I could get the vtkPolyData object.
<br clear="none">>
<br clear="none">> Has anyone successfully exported vtkPolyData from a Java application? If so,
<br clear="none">> how?
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