[vtkusers] STLWriter producing pixelated images?

Cory Quammen cory.quammen at kitware.com
Tue Jun 14 09:56:36 EDT 2016


Sorry, I should have been more specific. Add the vtkPolyDataNormals
filter after you load the STL file with the vtkSTLReader.

Cory

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Hp07 <hinesh_88 at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Cory,
>
> Many thanks for the reply.
>
> I looked into vtkPolyDataNormals as you mentioned. Can you please see below
> the images generated from VTK (right) and wxpython (left) which was
> generated using the vtkPolyDataNormals data and saving it in STL.
>
> Is that wat you were referring too? writing the STL using the
> vtkPolyDataNormals?
>
> norm = vtk.vtkPolyDataNormals()
>         norm.SetInputConnection(DicomMC.GetOutputPort())
>         norm.Update()
>
> writer = vtk.vtkSTLWriter()
>         writer.SetFileName(stlfilePath)
>         writer.SetInputConnection(normals.GetOutputPort())
>         writer.SetFileTypeToBinary()
>         writer.Write()
>
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> <http://vtk.1045678.n5.nabble.com/file/n5738659/wxpythonvsvtk.png>
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Cory Quammen
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