[vtkusers] convert polydata to unstructured grid

Michael Jackson mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
Thu Oct 9 09:30:38 EDT 2008


vtkUnstructuredGridToPolyDataFilter

http://www.vtk.org/doc/release/5.2/html/a01470.html

You could probably write your own convertor pretty quick.

Mike

On Oct 9, 2008, at 4:41 AM, Dominik Szczerba wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there is a clean way to convert a general  
> polydata surface
> to unstructured grid. Triangle filters will force simplices on  
> output while I
> have quads in the surface mesh that I want to preserve. Of course I  
> can
> achieve it by e.g. Threshold or Extract filters (thresholding  
> nothing or
> extracting everything) but I was wondering if there is a better way.
>
> regards,
> Dominik
>
> -- 
> Dominik Szczerba, Ph.D.
> Computational Physics Group
> Foundation for Research on Information Technologies in Society
> http://www.itis.ethz.ch
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