[vtkusers] Read data from a vtkCutter

[Bill Lorensen]

This example accesses the lines after cutting and stripping:

http://vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/ExtractPolyLinesFromPolyData

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Hsiang-Chi Kuo <hskuo at montefiore.org> wrote:
> Hi dear friends,
>
> I want to cut a volume data (.vtp) at different angle and read the data
> out. I applied vtkPlan and vtkCutter on the vtp data, what should I do
> next to be able to read the data out? Bellow is part of my code.
>
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader> reader =
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader>::New();
>  reader->SetFileName(filename.c_str());
>  reader->Update();
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkPlane> plane = vtkSmartPointer<vtkPlane>::New();
>  plane->SetOrigin(-50.3,-84.5,-18.8);
>  plane->SetNormal(1,0,0);
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkCutter> cutter = vtkSmartPointer<vtkCutter>::New();
>  cutter->SetCutFunction(plane);
>  cutter->SetInput(reader->GetOutput());
>  cutter->Update();
>
> Thanks,
>
> Howard
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