I am wanting to do Boolean operations on STL files with geometric primitives from the VTK library. My problem is converting the STL geometry to something that the VTK Boolean objects will except. I tried the following... import vtk filename = 'gyroid.stl' reader = vtk.vtkSTLReader() reader.SetFileName(filename) mapper = vtk.vtkPolyDataMapper() mapper.SetInputConnection(reader.GetOutputPort()) gyroid = vtk.vtkActor() gyroid.SetMapper(mapper) sphere = vtk.vtkSphere() sphere.SetRadius(30) sphere.SetCenter(0, 0, 0) boolean = vtk.vtkImplicitBoolean() boolean.SetOperationTypeToIntersection() boolean.AddFunction(gyroid) boolean.AddFunction(sphere) But get the following error... File "D:\Python codes\VTK\untitled8.py", line 29, in <module> boolean.AddFunction(gyroid) TypeError: AddFunction argument %Id: %V It throws the same error if I replace gyroid with mapper How do I convert the STL mesh into something useable by VTK? Or cant I do this & need to look elsewhere? Continue reading...
