[vtkusers] STL and vtkPolyData in Python

[David Gobbi]

Hi Ricardo,

The code you sent in your email should work fine if "trianglePolyData" is a
vtkPolyData.
So my best guess is that it isn't a vtkPolyData.

Try this:

  print trianglePolyData.GetClassName()

 - David


On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Ricardo Santos <
ricardo.c.r.santos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone!
>
>       I am having a little bit of a hard time trying to save a vtkPolyData
> to a stl file using Python. My main problem is that vtkSTLWriter needs a
> input that I can't find in vtkPolyData.
>
>       The relevant code is as follows:
>
> stlWriter = vtk.vtkSTLWriter()
>
> stlWriter.SetFileName("test.stl")
>
> stlWriter.SetInput(trianglePolyData) //also used
> stlWriter.SetInputPort(trianglePolyData) and it has not worked
>
> stlWriter.Write()
>
>
>      Does anyone know how I could save the STL file?
>
>
> Ricardo Santos
>
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