[vtkusers] Removing cells inside solids !

[Sebastien Auclair]

Completly forgot about this one !!! (.. and my code uses it !)
You're right ... thanks !


----- Original Message -----
From: "Amy Henderson" <amy.henderson at kitware.com>
To: "Sebastien Auclair" <sxa at fluent.com>; "vtkusers"
<vtkusers at public.kitware.com>
Cc: "Malcolm Drummond" <malcolm at geovision.co.za>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Removing cells inside solids !


> You could try using vtkAppendFilter or vtkAppendPolyData depending on
which
> type your data set is.  (vtkAppendFilter works on any type of data set and
> produces a vtkUnstructuredGrid. vtkAppendPolyData works on vtkPolyData and
> produces vtkPolyData output.)
>
> - Amy
>
> At 09:22 AM 6/3/2003 -0400, Sebastien Auclair wrote:
> >I think i can pretty much handle the quad creation stuff and the capings
> >generation... (Each through manual cell creation.)
> >But how can i use the 2 generated caps and quad string to form a single
> >dataset,... How to merge everything.
> >
> >Thanks !
> >
> >____________________________________
> >Seb
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Malcolm Drummond" <malcolm at geovision.co.za>
> >To: "vtkusers" <vtkusers at public.kitware.com>
> >Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 4:50 AM
> >Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Removing cells inside solids !
> >
> >
> > > Hi Sebastien
> > >
> > > How about creating your own extrusion before tesselation. It would
only
> > > involve the creation of quads (one per line segment) describing the
'wall'
> > > around your polygons. You could then cap the top and bottom with
> >tesselated
> > > polygons
> > >
> > > HTH
> > > Malcolm
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Sebastien Auclair" <sxa at fluent.com>
> > > To: <vtkusers at public.kitware.com>
> > > Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 10:26 PM
> > > Subject: [vtkusers] Removing cells inside solids !
> > >
> > >
> > > > Sorry for this repost but we never had any answers and it is now
> >becoming
> > > a
> > > > critical issue for us.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a filter that would remove the facets inside a solid ?
> > > >
> > > > Let say i have a square formed with two triangles. (See attached
image )
> > > > I extrude this square to get a cube.
> > > > Because ALL edges are extruded to produce facets, the resulting cube
> >will
> > > > have an unacessary internal diagonal facet.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a vtkFilter that could remove those internal topologies ?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks !
> > > > _____________________________________
> > > > Seb
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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