[vtkusers] Can't get vtk modules to work in python - visual studio

Shawn Waldon shawn.waldon at kitware.com
Tue Jul 28 09:55:03 EDT 2015


I've had to figure this out before... here is what I remember:  First you
should make sure that the vtk binaries you installed were built with
python.  Then you need to add the VTK_INSTALL/lib and
VTK_INSTALL/lib/PythonX/site-packages (replace X with python version,
probably 2.7) folders to both your PATH and your PYTHONPATH environment
variables. Then you should be able to import vtk.

HTH,
Shawn

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 1:47 AM, roobaru <chpradeep.ith at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I am very new to python and vtk. I got a vtk windows installer and used the
> noob-friendly method to install it. I can see the VTK 6.2.0 folder in the
> program files. I also added the bin folder to system path with the hope
> that
> I can simply import vtk in python. I installed python in visual studio and
> when I use import vtk I get the error "No module named vtk". I added the
> bin
> folder into solution explorer but it didn't help. Please help how to add
> the
> vtk libraries to my existing python. I tried to search the forums, but
> couldn't find anything helpful. Sorry for the noob question.
>
>
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