vtkPLYWriter

Section: Visualization Toolkit IO Classes

Usage

vtkPLYWriter writes polygonal data in Stanford University PLY format (see http://graphics.stanford.edu/data/3Dscanrep/). The data can be written in either binary (little or big endian) or ASCII representation. As for PointData and CellData, vtkPLYWriter cannot handle normals or vectors. It only handles RGB PointData and CellData. You need to set the name of the array (using SetName for the array and SetArrayName for the writer). If the array is not a vtkUnsignedCharArray with 3 components, you need to specify a vtkLookupTable to map the scalars to RGB.

To create an instance of class vtkPLYWriter, simply invoke its constructor as follows

  obj = vtkPLYWriter

Methods

The class vtkPLYWriter has several methods that can be used. They are listed below. Note that the documentation is translated automatically from the VTK sources, and may not be completely intelligible. When in doubt, consult the VTK website. In the methods listed below, obj is an instance of the vtkPLYWriter class.