[Paraview] User-defined reader
Mathieu Malaterre
mathieu.malaterre at kitware.com
Thu Feb 3 11:01:44 EST 2005
farid.moussaoui at bluemail.ch wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to integrate an OpenCascade viewer to Paraview.
> What I want to have is a user-defined reader a la Ensight
> without working inside Paraview.
>
> Is this possible with the current version of Paraview?
Farid,
What are you exactly looking for :
1. Read some other file format VTK/ParaView does not support ?
or
2. Make ParaView link to OpenCascade to be able to access the structure ?
For #1, have a look at other readers in VTK, to help you start writting
your own.
As for #2, have a look at the newly added abstraction layer in VTK:
http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkGenericAdaptorCell.html
http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkGenericDataSet.html
Those classes are empty nutshell you can plug to third party library
(such as OpenCascade).
HTH
Mathieu
Ps: On a side note you can also have a look at my previous work to read
IGES file using opencascade lib at :
http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/~malaterre/vtk/iges/
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