<div dir="ltr"><div class="markdown-here-wrapper" style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">One solution would be to create an implicit function from your curved surface and use vtkCutter's SetCutFunction() API to cut the geometry.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">You can use vtkImplicitDataset to generate the implicit function. </p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">Hope that helps.<br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">Sankhesh</p>
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