[vtkusers] Boolean Operation to create a hollow cylinder

[David Doria]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 6:37 PM, David Morris <dvmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to create a hollow cylinder using VTK? I assume there may be
> a way using a boolean subtraction operation, but I can't really find any
> examples or documentation about this. I just want to create a hollow
> cylinder, presumably by subtracting a cylinder from a larger cylinder and
> ending up with some kind of polyData object. Let me know if that makes
> sense, and if this is possible using VTK.
> Thanks for the help,
>
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> Dave Morris
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If I'm not mistaken, the CylinderSource makes a hollow cylinder, right?

http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkCylinderSource.html#_details

There is an example of how to use it here:
http://www.itk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/CylinderSource

Maybe I misunderstood what you're looking for?

Thanks,

David