[Paraview] vtkCutter

[Samuel Key]

Randy--

Have you tried to use ParaView's Clip Filter with Clip Type selection 
set to "Box"

--Sam

On 10/17/2017 1:55 PM, Heiland, Randy wrote:
> Thanks. Actually, I did a poor job explaining what I want to do. I’d 
> like to have *partial* clip planes (as opposed to “infinite" planes 
> over the entire domain). More specifically, my current use case is a 
> bunch of spheres (representing biological cells) inside a spheroidal 
> tumor. I’d like to cut out an octant, for example, from that spheroid 
> to be able to peer inside better.
>
> I’ve mocked up an example, using random points, and put the PV state 
> file at https://github.com/rheiland/paraview_play (along with some 
> sample /images). I just used the Box option of the Clip filter, 
> because the Plane option seems to define an infinite plane (via Point 
> and Normal). But the Box params (Position, Rotate, Scale) is not 
> intuitive for my use case. Ideally I’d like to be able to specify a 
> Corner and 3 Vectors. And, eventually, I’d like “cutter” results, 
> where the spheres/cells are actually cut and capped.
>
> So perhaps, I need an alternative pipeline for my use case. 
> Suggestions welcome. For that matter, am I mistaken in thinking I can 
> do what I want using OSPRay spheres?
>
> thanks! -Randy
>
>> On Oct 17, 2017, at 8:37 AM, Mathieu Westphal 
>> <mathieu.westphal at kitware.com <mailto:mathieu.westphal at kitware.com>> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> It is called Slice, and is available in the Filters and in the Common 
>> Filters toolbar.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Mathieu Westphal
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Heiland, Randy <heiland at iu.edu 
>> <mailto:heiland at iu.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>     Is vtkCutter not directly accessible in PV (from the menus)? I’d
>>     like to do something similar to:
>>     https://www.vtk.org/gitweb?p=VTK.git;a=blob;f=Examples/VisualizationAlgorithms/Python/ClipCow.py
>>     <https://www.vtk.org/gitweb?p=VTK.git;a=blob;f=Examples/VisualizationAlgorithms/Python/ClipCow.py>
>>
>>     for my dataset.
>>
>>     thanks, Randy
>>
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