[vtkusers] Intersection of a plane and a mesh

[David Doria]

On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Karthik Krishnan
<karthik.krishnan at kitware.com> wrote:
> Use a vtkCutter with a plane as the implicit function. There are ample
> examples in the book and in VTK source tree.
>
> On 12/26/09, Zein Salah <zeinsalah at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> is there an efficient way in VTK to computer the intersection of a mesh and
>> a cutting plane? The resulting contour might be represented as a vtk mesh.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> zein
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This example cuts through a cube:
http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/VTK_Examples_vtkCutter

Simply replace the cube polydata with your mesh and you are done :)

Thanks,

David