[vtkusers] vtk6.1 .ExternalData and how to set VTK_DATA_ROOT

[John Drescher]

> I have been using VTK 5.x and recently I compiled and installed vtk6.1
> successfully from source. However, I do not know how to handle .ExternalData
> and could not find any guide online. I downloaded VTKData-6.1.0.zip and
> unzipped it to c:\vtk61\data\.ExternalData\MD5 (1938 items in this folder).
> On CMake, I set VTK_Data_STORE=c:\vtk61\data\.ExternalData. After
> compilation in VS2012, I found 15 sub-folders from Charts to Views in the
> VTK binary folder: C:\vtk61\vtkbin\ExternalData. How do I set up
> VTK_DATA_ROOT so that I can run Tcl examples such as
> C:\vtk61\code\Examples\DataManipulation\Tcl\pointToCellData.tcl that
> requires external data?


Normally you set that in cmake-gui while configuring vtk before you build VTK.

John