[vtkusers] How to manipulate planes in VTK without using a planeWidget

[Ocean Spring]

refer the medical1.tcl medical2.tcl medical3.tcl examples, if you have vtk
examples installed




On 3/9/07, Michael Hanley <Michael.Hanley at ucd.ie> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> First time poster and still a novice with vtk, so excuse my terminology.
>
> Basically, I have two cutting planes acting on a 3d object. One plane is
> linked to a planewidget, so moving the widget moves this cutter plane
> along the object in sagittal/axial/Coronal planes. The other cutterplane
> is a parallel plane to the first cutter plane, any instance of this
> plane is simply called to the current location of the first cutter
> plane, it is not movable with the widget.
>
> So, what i want to do is to be able to call these planes to specific
> locations in space, namely discrete points along the 3d actors surface
> without using the planewidget. So is there a command in VTK (i use Tcl)
> that will let me do this? AddPosition was recommended by a friend, but
> this only moves the actor, the plane still acts on the same point on the
> 3d object.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael Hanley
>
> Bioengineering Research
> Room 205a
> Engineering Building
> Belfield, UCD.
>
>
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