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

[John Anaia]

Hi John,

Thank you so much for your response. I set
VTK_Data_STORE=c:\vtk61\data\.ExternalData.
Is this right? Is there anything else I should set on CMake GUI?

Thank you
John




On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 5:32 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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
>
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