[Paraview] How to save points from a cut

[Dominik Szczerba]

Save the file as legacy, but AFAIR this will give you a binary file. But
this you can already read yourself (will be big endian) - or use a
simple TCL script or C++ code to convert it to ASCII.
--ds

tchumat at astro.helsinki.fi wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> This is probably a newbie question, but I simply do not find the answer
> myself.
> I am  running paraview on linux, open a vtk file, the header of the file
> I am opening looks like that:
> ASCII                     DATASET POLYDATA          POINTS   10818  float
> 
> What I would like to do, is to store the points and triangles after I
> have cut this object in to a file, which has plain text, as it was the
> case for the input file. The problem, I have is that I do not find the
> setting to change the encoding of the save-format to the format where
> the points are stored in ASCII text.
> Is this possible? What I get, if I store the results of the cut in a
> file I allways get the encoded data <AppendedData encoding="base64">,
> which I can not process further.
> I really tried all the formats like vtk, pvd, ply etc, but all of them
> store the data somehow encoded.
> 
> Thanks very much!
> 
> Tchu
> 
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Dominik Szczerba, Dr.
Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
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