[vtkusers] vtkSTLWriter strongly confusing behavior

[Frederic Danesi]

I think that there is no such thing as merging in the STLWriter, since a STL
file is basically only the coordinates of the points, without any ID.
The merging operation probably happen when you load your STL, since the
coincident points have the same coordinates and are thus considered as
unique point ...
Fred.

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-----Message d'origine-----
De : vtkusers-bounces at vtk.org [mailto:vtkusers-bounces at vtk.org] De la part
de Dominik Szczerba
Envoyé : mercredi 19 août 2009 20:28
À : VTK users group
Objet : [vtkusers] vtkSTLWriter strongly confusing behavior

It is once again that I had to pay a few hours debugging to find out I 
miss to merge coincident points after append filter. This is because I 
was confused by vtkSTLWriter (that I used to output a test mesh) which 
is merging the points in the mesh he writes. So I thought the mesh is OK 
while it was not! I think STLWriter should not do it in order not to 
fool the users. Or it at least should be an option (defaulting to 
merging off). What do others think?
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