[vtkusers] vtkClipClosedSurface using a finite plane

[David Gobbi]

Hi Sebastien,

It's not possible to limit the plane size with vtkClipClosedSurface.
The planes are always infinite in extent.  Adding more clipping
planes will always clip away more of the data, never less.

 - David


On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:10 PM, sebastian ordas
<sebastian.ordas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm successfully using vtkClipClosedSurface in an application for slicing a
> set of perfectly closed meshes.
>
> Now I would like to cut through my scene with a finite plane or somehow
> restrict the slicing extension to a given extent
>
> My target  application is an ultrasound simulator. I would like to avoid
> slicing through the complete scene (i.e all organs in my scene) but within
> the US image plane only
>
> I´m trying to combine several planes in vtkClipClosedSurface, but I´m not
> getting the pretended results
>
> Any hint will help
>
> many thanks
> sebastian