[vtkusers] convert polydata to unstructured grid

[Dominik Szczerba]

That is exactly the opposite to what I want... or did I miss something?

I agree own convertor is straight-forward, I just find it hard to believe this 
feature is really absent with the abundance of much more sophisticated ones.

Dominik


On Thursday 09 October 2008 03:30:38 pm Michael Jackson wrote:
> 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
> >
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