[vtkusers] Axis issues

[Gerrick Bivins]

What version of VTK are you using? I'm on the 5.2 branch. In there, a bunch
of customization methods for setting text properties for each axis, title
and ticks. Checkout:
http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkCubeAxesActor.html

I'm setting my fonts something  like:
cubeAxis.SetXLabelFormat("%6.4g");
cubeAxis.SetYLabelFormat("%6.4g");
cubeAxis.SetZLabelFormat("%6.4g");

To offset the origin you could try:
cubeAxis.SetCornerOffset( offset );

biv


On 6/27/08 12:42 PM, "Sarah Macumber" <S.Macumber at QuestReliability.com>
wrote:

> Do you know how to set the text properties of this actor or how to shift it
> off the origin? The Set Origin doesn't seem to be working.
>  
> Thanks, Sarah
> 
> ________________________________
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> From: Gerrick Bivins [mailto:gbivins at objectreservoir.com]
> Sent: Thu 6/26/2008 10:29 PM
> To: Sarah Macumber; VTK-users
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Axis issues
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> 
> If you want the axis to stick to your dataset, you can try vtkCubeAxesActor.
> There are still some quirky things there (I run across them when scaling my
> data) I was able to work around it and the axes stay attached to dataset
> bounds correctly when navigating around.
> biv
> 
> On 6/26/08 7:37 PM, "Sarah Macumber" <S.Macumber at QuestReliability.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am having problems with setting up 3D axes with tick marks.  When I use
>> vtkAxisActor it disapears if I am rotating / zooming in certain directions.
>> If I use vtkAxisActor2D when I rotate the axis it can come "unhinged" from
>> where it should be.  Has anyone else seen such wierd behavior with the axis
>> objects when you zoom / rotate?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Sarah
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