[vtkusers] convert polydata to unstructured grid

Michael Jackson mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
Thu Oct 9 10:28:04 EDT 2008


Doh.. Not enough coffee this morning. Probably writing your own is the  
quickest at this point. It can't be that hard..

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Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio

On Oct 9, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Dominik Szczerba wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dominik Szczerba, Ph.D.
>>> Computational Physics Group
>>> Foundation for Research on Information Technologies in Society
>>> http://www.itis.ethz.ch
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> Dominik Szczerba, Ph.D.
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