Hi Luca

It works great. Thank you very much!

Zhuang

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Luca Antiga <luca.ant...@orobix.com> wrote:

> Hi Zhuang,
>  the most efficient way to do what you need is to first create the thick
> wall and then clip the mesh afterwards.
>
> In order to create the thick wall (I assume you want to go "outwards"), do
> the following:
>
> vmtksurfacenormals -ifile input_surface.vtp --pipe vmtksurfacetomesh
> --pipe vmtkboundarylayer -warpvectorsarray Normals -constantthickness 1
> -thickness 2.0 -ofile thick_walled_model.vtu
>
> Now you can clip the resulting model using Clip in Paraview or using
> vmtkmeshclipper.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> Luca
>
>
>
> On Feb 20, 2012, at 10:16 AM, Lingfeng Zhuang wrote:
>
> > Dear Luca,
> >
> > I am using vmtkcenterlinemodeller + vmtkmarchingcubes to produce a 3D
> airway model.  I am going to print it out using 3D printer.
> >
> > But, the operator told me I need to
> > 1. Open all closest surface on airway end points.
> > 2. Set wall thickness to 2mm. Now, wall thickness is zero because wall
> is composed of one-layer cells.
> >
> > Could you tell me how to do that?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Zhuang lingfeng
> >
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