[Paraview] PowerCrust in Filters

Berk Geveci berk.geveci at kitware.com
Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:32:41 -0500


If you created your own xml file, make sure that the root element is the
following:

<ModuleInterfaces>
</ModuleInterfaces>

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 11:01, Amy Henderson wrote:
> Hi Axel,
> 
> I just tried adding this algorithm to my build of VTK and then making it 
> available in ParaView. It worked fine for me. Here is my XML code:
> 
>    <Module name="PowerCrust"
>            menu_name="Power Crust"
>            root_name="PowerCrust"
>            module_type="Filter"
>            long_help="power crust filter"
>            short_help="power crust filter">
>      <Filter class="vtkPowerCrustSurfaceReconstruction">
>        <Input name="Input"
>               class="vtkDataSet"/>
>      </Filter>
>      <InputMenu trace_name="Input" label="Input"
>                 help="Set the input to this filter."
>                 input_name="Input"/>
>    </Module>
> 
> The differences I see from yours are that 1) the input accepts vtkDataSet, 
> not just vtkPolyData and 2) the InputMenu code should not go inside the 
> <Filter> </Filter> tags.
> 
> If you added this code to Filters.xml, be sure to recompile ParaView. It 
> converts the XML to a header file. If you put this XML code in a separate 
> file, it needs to be loaded before you can use it (File menu | Import Package).
> 
> - Amy
> 
> At 10:25 AM 3/23/2004, Axel Steuwer wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >has anyone tried accessing the PowerCrust SurfaceReconstruction algorithm
> >(http://www.eastman.ucl.ac.uk/~thutton/powercrust/) as a filter in ParaView?
> >I added it to the vtk-library, and I tried the following code but it doesn't
> >work
> >
> >...
> ><module>
> >  <module name="PowerCrustSurfaceReconstruction"
> >root_name="PowerCrustSurfaceReconstruction" module_type="Filter">
> >   <Filter class="vtkPowerCrustSurfaceReconstruction">
> >     <Input name="Input" class="vtkPolyData" />
> >    <InputMenu trace_name="Input" label="Input" help="PowerCrust Surface
> >reconstruction"/>
> >    </Filter>
> ></module>
> >....
> >
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >Axel
> >
> >
> >
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