[vtkusers] Re: iges parser

[Goodwin Lawlor]

Hi Morten,

> can VTK be used to read an arbitrary IGES file ?

No... but Mathieu Malaterre has tried using opencascade
(www.opencascade.org) and vtk.
Have a look here: http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/~malaterre/vtk/iges/

There's another project, Salome, that has integrated vtk and occ but it
maybe overkill for your requirements.
It is here: http://www.salome-platform.org/

One problem you may hit is that IGES has primitives not supported by vtk
(like NURBS), so its a translation problem on top of the reading problem.
GLU has methods for tesselating NURBS, if you want to give it a try.

hth

Goodwin