Please help the newbie...

[Pieper, Chris]

I'm trying to extract point coordinates from a vtkPolyData object which I
generate from a vtkPolyDataReader -- here's what I'm doing...

vtkPolyDataReader *reader = vtkPolyDataReader::New();
    reader->SetFileName(argv[1]);

vtkPolyData *polydat = reader->GetOutput();
vtkPoints  *pointdat = (vtkPoints *) polydat->GetPoints();

cout << "# number of points = " << pointdat->GetNumberOfPoints() << "\n";

//

I know this may be a very round about way of getting at the points, but I'm
just trying to get something to work.  The program seems to choke on the
GetNumberOfPoints() method.  I've tried more direct approaches such as,

vtkPolyDataReader *reader = vtkPolyDataReader::New();
    reader->SetFileName(argv[1]);

cout << "# number of points = " 
     << (reader->GetOutput())->GetNumberOfPoints() << "\n";
//

this runs, but I get a number of points = 0

I know I am reading the vtk file correctly because the rest of my
visualization pipeline works, generating the output I expect.  I'm just a
bit puzzled...

thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

Chris Pieper
cpieper at kcc.com
v: 920-721-4037
f: 920-721-8471




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