FW: [vtkusers] vtkAppendPolyData

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Just a bet:

vtkSTLWriter :: SetFileTypeToBinary ()

HTH
mathieu

R K Shyamprakash wrote:
> Further to my previous mail, the problem is not with vtkAppendPolyData but
> with vtkSTLWriter itself. I tried reading a .stl file and rewriting it with
> vtkSTLWriter(and doing nothing else). the original file size was 9MB. but
> the size of the file written with vtkSTLWriter is 36 MB. what could be the
> problem?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hello,
>           In my application I use vtkAppendPolyData to join two polydata.
> but I see that this increases the file size by great extent when I write the
> joined data into a file. The size of the original .STL file is 10 MB. I cut
> the model into smaller parts and again join them by vtkAppendpolyData, then
> write the data back into .stl file, the file size is nearly 100MB. How to
> solve this problem. Please help.
> 
> Thanks
> Shyam
> 
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