[vtkusers] Extrude along a polyline

[John Platt]

Thanks Bill.

I'll try and modify vtkTubeFilter to produce a rectangular section and 
see if the orientation problem can be easily solved. Fortunately,  the 
lines in the polydata have no torsion.

John.


On 5/23/2017 8:49 PM, Bill Lorensen wrote:
> John,
>
> I don't think vtk has such a filter. You could make copy of your 2d
> polydata at each point in the polyline. Then generate a ruled surface
> between each pair of polydata's. The tricky part is to orient the
> polydata properly. A recently added remote module computes the
> FrenetSerretFrame along a line:
> https://lorensen.github.io/VTKExamples/site/Cxx/Remote/FrenetSerretFrame/
>
> The resulting frame could be used to align the polydata.
>
> Just a half-baked idea,
>
> Bill
>
> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 3:25 PM, John Platt <jcplatt at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to extrude some 2d polydata along a polyline. Something like
>> vtkTubeFilter but not a circular section or vtkLinearExtrusionFilter applied
>> to each line segment. Any suggestions or advice would be very much
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John.
>>
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