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SimplePointsWriter

vtk-examples/Cxx/IO/SimplePointsWriter

Description

Seealso

For the opposite operation (reading a points file) see the

SimplePointsReader example.

Other languages

See (Java)

Question

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Code

SimplePointsWriter.cxx

#include <vtkNew.h>
#include <vtkSimplePointsWriter.h>
#include <vtkSphereSource.h>

int main(int vtkNotUsed(argc), char* vtkNotUsed(argv)[])
{
  vtkNew<vtkSphereSource> sphereSource;
  sphereSource->Update();

  vtkNew<vtkSimplePointsWriter> writer;
  writer->SetFileName("test.xyz");
  writer->SetInputConnection(sphereSource->GetOutputPort());
  writer->Write();

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.12 FATAL_ERROR)

project(SimplePointsWriter)

find_package(VTK COMPONENTS 
)

if (NOT VTK_FOUND)
  message(FATAL_ERROR "SimplePointsWriter: Unable to find the VTK build folder.")
endif()

# Prevent a "command line is too long" failure in Windows.
set(CMAKE_NINJA_FORCE_RESPONSE_FILE "ON" CACHE BOOL "Force Ninja to use response files.")
add_executable(SimplePointsWriter MACOSX_BUNDLE SimplePointsWriter.cxx )
  target_link_libraries(SimplePointsWriter PRIVATE ${VTK_LIBRARIES}
)
# vtk_module_autoinit is needed
vtk_module_autoinit(
  TARGETS SimplePointsWriter
  MODULES ${VTK_LIBRARIES}
)

Download and Build SimplePointsWriter

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

cd SimplePointsWriter/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:

./SimplePointsWriter

WINDOWS USERS

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