[vtkusers] Manually positioning a cylinder between two points - How to?

[David Doria]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Wagner Sales <wsales at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I need to manually position a cylinder between two points in 3D space.
> In fact, aren't exactly a cylinder, but a polydata that's have same
> properties a cylinder haves.
>

I'm not sure I understand fully.  Do you know a point on each cap of the
cylinder? If so you could use a landmark transform between the two points
you know on the cylinder and the two 3D points. I've done this to orient
things in the past.

Thanks,

David
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