extract outline from unstructured grid

[Uwe Kroiss]

Thanks for your reply, Victor!

I tried this before, but what I got was not what I
wanted (I don't want the bounding-box, 
I want the exact edges of that object).



--- Victor ALDEA <valdea at mrco2.carleton.ca> schrieb:
> At 12:58 AM 8/25/99 -0700, Uwe Kroiss wrote:
> >Hi VTK-users!
> >
> >I need to extract the outline (edges) of an 
> >unstructured grid (mesh of tetrahedrons). 
> >Is there an easy way of doing that?
> 
> Try this:
> 
>     #OutlineFilter
>     vtkUnstructuredGridReader reader$filename
>         reader$filename SetFileName $filename
>     vtkOutlineFilter outline$filename  
>        outline$filename SetInput [reader$filename
> GetOutput]
>     vtkPolyDataMapper outlineMapper$filename  
>        outlineMapper$filename SetInput
> [outline$filename GetOutput]
>     vtkActor outlineActor$filename  
>        outlineActor$filename SetMapper
> outlineMapper$filename
>        [outlineActor$filename GetProperty] SetColor
> 1 1 1
> -----------------------
> 
> 	Victor
> 
> >
> >
> >TIA 
> >
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