[vtkusers] Unit of vtkMassProperties::GetVolume()?

Jothy jothybasu at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 11:06:33 EDT 2011


Thanks very much!

Jothy

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 4:02 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
> VTK is unitless.  The units you get out are the units you put in.
>
> If your input polydata has points defined in terms of millimetres, then
> the volume will be in cubic millimetres.  If your data is measured in inches,
> then the the volume will be cubic inches.
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Jothy <jothybasu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to calculate the volume of a mesh using vtkMassProperties
>> GetVolume() method. it give some number like 1.5e07. What is the unit
>> of this volume, there is nothing mentioned in the docs about this.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Jothy
>



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