[vtkusers] VTK Model not shown correctly

[Eric E. Monson]

Hey Chris,

I don't  know if this will do it, but you might want to try calling

renderer.ResetCameraClippingRange()

after those camera position and view calls.

-Eric

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Eric E Monson
Duke Visualization Technology Group


On May 19, 2010, at 2:40 PM, Chris Turner wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I use the following python script to display a vtk model:
> 
> 
> renderer = vtk.vtkRenderer()
> window = vtk.vtkRenderWindow()
> window.AddRenderer(renderer)
> iren = vtk.vtkRenderWindowInteractor()
> iren.SetRenderWindow(window)
> window.SetSize(500,500)
> renderer.SetBackground(1,1,1)
> 
> reader = vtk.vtkPolyDataReader()
> cam=renderer.GetActiveCamera()
> writer=vtk.vtkPNGWriter()
> 
> reader.SetFileName("/tmp/balblub.vtk")
> mapper = vtk.vtkPolyDataMapper()
> mapper.SetInput(reader.GetOutput())
> actor = vtk.vtkActor()
> actor.SetMapper(mapper)
> actor.GetProperty().SetColor(1,0,0)
> renderer.AddActor(actor)
> 
> renderer.ResetCamera()		
> cam.SetPosition(0,-120,222)
> cam.SetViewUp (0, 0.7, 0.7)
> window.Render()
> iren.Start()
> 
> 
> You can see the resulting image in half.jpg. If I use the mouse wheel
> to zoom in and out again I get the correct model seen in full.jpg.
> 
> So obviously I'm missing some update function or so. But I don't know
> which..... So can somebody help me?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Chris
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