[vtkusers] vtkArrowSource rotation issue

[Bill Lorensen]

I just modified the example to optionally use actor's SetUserMatrix.
That may better suit your application.

Bill

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Markus Ott <ott-markus at t-online.de> wrote:
> Thanks! This helped me a lot :)
>
> Bill Lorensen schrieb:
>> Here is an example:
>> http://vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/GeometricObjects/Display/OrientedArrow
>> that orients an arrow along an arbitrary direction.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Markus Ott <ott-markus at t-online.de> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> i have a problem rotating vtkArrowSource. A instantiated arrowSource
>>> points from [0, 0, 0] to [1, 0, 0] with it's origin at [0, 0, 0]. If i
>>> want to rotate this thing to [1, 1, 1] what is the correct way to do
>>> this rotation?
>>>
>>> Obviously I need a rotation of 45 degrees around the y and the z axis.
>>> Doing this via my actor works for each axis perfectly but putting it all
>>> together the arrow doesn't point to the desired location:
>>>
>>> actor.RotateWXYZ(45, 0, 0, 1);
>>> actor.RotateWXYZ(45, 0, 1, 0);
>>>
>>> What is the right way of doing this? I just don't get it!
>>>
>>> Thanks so far.
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