I was actually hoping for some way to do this with the standard ParaView Distribution. -- Randall Hand Visualization Scientist, DAAC http://www.yeraze.com
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Bryn Lloyd <[email protected]>wrote: > You can do the following: > > 1. start with original surface (original triangles), with N nodes > > 2. extrude by a certain distance: you get a new surface (new triangles) > > 3. the extrusion simply adds corresponding nodes for each original node, so > a node with id k has a corresponding node with id N+k. > > 4. connect triangle i in original triangles with triangle i in new > triangles. Make a prism for each triangle. > > 5. convert all prisms to tetrahedra using "triangulate" > > > Most of the code necessary for this can be found here (steps 1-4, 5 is > already in paraview): > http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~blloyd/Extrusion/<http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/%7Eblloyd/Extrusion/> > > -Bryn > > > > > > On Feb 13, 2009, at 5:32 PM, Randall Hand wrote: > > I have a 2D Triangulated mesh that a user wants extruded into a 3D Shape >> for use in simulation work. >> >> I tried using the "Linear Extrusion" filter, but that only gets the outer >> edges. What I really need to do is extrude the triangles into 3D >> Triangulate Prisms (5-sided solids, 2 triangles & 3 quads). Is there any >> way to do this? >> >> I tried doing: >> Dataset >> |- Extract Surface - Linear Extrusion >> |- Extract Edges - Linear Extrusion >> Append both Together - Clean >> >> That's close, but I have a collection of 2D Primitives, and lose all the >> interior volume. >> >> -- >> Randall Hand >> Visualization Scientist, DAAC >> http://www.yeraze.com >> _______________________________________________ >> Powered by www.kitware.com >> >> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >> >> Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: >> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView >> >> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >> http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview >> > >
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