[vtkusers] vtkVRMLImporter question

Cory Quammen cquammen at cs.unc.edu
Mon Aug 25 11:53:47 EDT 2008


Al,

Check out vtkAssembly. It should do what you want, but becomes very
slow when you try to add too many actors.

Cory

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:20 AM,  <allan.martin at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm pretty new to VTK... I'm trying to import a VRML file that describes a
> surface (of a screw), and then put a box widget around it so I can
> manipulate it.  'vtkVRMLImporter' successfully reads the file and renders
> the screw, but there are 12 actors in the collection.  My question: Is there
> a way to coalesce these 12 actors into one actor? (or is there any other way
> to manipulate the screw as 1 object)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Al Martin
>
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Cory Quammen
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