Stripper

VTKEx/Cxx/PolyData/Stripper

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Code

Stripper.cxx

#include <vtkSmartPointer.h>
#include <vtkPolyData.h>
#include <vtkSphereSource.h>
#include <vtkStripper.h>

int main(int, char *[])
{
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkSphereSource> sphereSource = 
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkSphereSource>::New();
  sphereSource->Update();

  std::cout << "Number of cells before stripping: " << sphereSource->GetOutput()->GetNumberOfCells() << std::endl;

  vtkSmartPointer<vtkStripper> stripper = 
      vtkSmartPointer<vtkStripper>::New();
  stripper->SetInputConnection(sphereSource->GetOutputPort());
  stripper->Update();

  std::cout << "Number of cells after stripping: " << stripper->GetOutput()->GetNumberOfCells() << std::endl;

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.3 FATAL_ERROR)

project(Stripper)

find_package(VTK COMPONENTS 
  vtkvtkCommonCore
  vtkvtkCommonDataModel
  vtkvtkFiltersCore
  vtkvtkFiltersSources QUIET)
if (NOT VTK_FOUND)
  message("Skipping Stripper: ${VTK_NOT_FOUND_MESSAGE}")
  return ()
endif()
message (STATUS "VTK_VERSION: ${VTK_VERSION}")
if (VTK_VERSION VERSION_LESS "8.90.0")
  # old system
  include(${VTK_USE_FILE})
  add_executable(Stripper MACOSX_BUNDLE Stripper.cxx )
  target_link_libraries(Stripper PRIVATE ${VTK_LIBRARIES})
else ()
  # include all components
  add_executable(Stripper MACOSX_BUNDLE Stripper.cxx )
  target_link_libraries(Stripper PRIVATE ${VTK_LIBRARIES})
  # vtk_module_autoinit is needed
  vtk_module_autoinit(
    TARGETS Stripper
    MODULES ${VTK_LIBRARIES}
    )
endif ()

Download and Build Stripper

Click here to download Stripper and its CMakeLists.txt file. Once the tarball Stripper.tar has been downloaded and extracted,

cd Stripper/build

If VTK is installed:

cmake ..

If VTK is not installed but compiled on your system, you will need to specify the path to your VTK build:

cmake -DVTK_DIR:PATH=/home/me/vtk_build ..

Build the project:

make

and run it:

./Stripper

WINDOWS USERS

Be sure to add the VTK bin directory to your path. This will resolve the VTK dll's at run time.