[vtkusers] checking whether a mesh is watertight

[Michael Jackson]

You could run the EdgeFilter and if there are NO edges found then I think you can call that watertight. There are some other ways to check also. 
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Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer       mike.jackson at bluequartz.net 
BlueQuartz Software               Dayton, Ohio

On Sep 8, 2011, at 11:50 AM, emreturkoz wrote:

> I wonder if VTK has a filter to check whether the 3D surface mesh is
> "watertight" which means that every edge on the surface is neighbour with
> another. If such a filter exists, is there also a method to remove these
> irregularities?
> 
> Thank you.
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