[Paraview] vtkCutter

[Cory Quammen]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Heiland, Randy <heiland at iu.edu> wrote:

> Thanks! Before I start down that path, will this handle multiple, disjoint
> polylines? E.g., a plane slicing through 2 spheres; I just want to cap the
> sliced spheres.
>

I'm about 95% sure it will. It is fairly robust IIRC.

Cory

> On Oct 26, 2017, at 11:10 AM, Cory Quammen <cory.quammen at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>
> There isn't a filter exposed in ParaView to do this. You could expose
> vtkContourTriangulator in an XML plugin [1] and apply that to the polyline
> created by the planar Slice through your polygonal geometry.
>
> Cory
>
> [1] https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Plugin_HowTo#XML_Only
>
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Heiland, Randy <heiland at iu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Yes, sorry I wasn’t clear.
>>
>> On Oct 26, 2017, at 10:33 AM, Cory Quammen <cory.quammen at kitware.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure what you mean. Are you trying to clip some polygonal
>> geometry with a plane and want to fill in the hole created with a polygon?
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Heiland, Randy <heiland at iu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a property that lets me cap the results?
>>>
>>> On Oct 26, 2017, at 10:18 AM, Cory Quammen <cory.quammen at kitware.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sounds like you want the Slice filter.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Heiland, Randy <heiland at iu.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I’m not seeing the vtkCutter in the list of filters (well, perhaps the
>>>> AMR CutPlane). If not, any advice on how to accomplish it for some
>>>> polydata? https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Python_Programmable_Filter ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
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