[vtkusers] Strips "triangulated" back into polys?

Amy Squillacote amy.squillacote at kitware.com
Tue Apr 12 10:15:02 EDT 2005


Try vtkTriangleFilter.

- Amy

At 09:58 AM 4/12/2005, Jeremy Winston wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>     vtkSTLWriter only likes polys;
>it ignores triangle strips:
>
>   void vtkSTLWriter::WriteData()
>   {
>     ...
>     polys = input->GetPolys();
>     pts = input->GetPoints();
>     if (pts == NULL || polys == NULL )
>      {
>       vtkErrorMacro(<<"No data to write!");
>       return;
>      }
>     ...
>
>Is there a filter that "un-strips" a triangle
>strip back into triangles?
>
>(And the answer to the obvious question is that
>the .vtk files being converted to STL files by
>vtkSTLWriter are created by code oustide of my
>control. ;-)
>
>TIA,
>-Jeremy
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