CFD Online Discussion Forums - [General] Clip Filter as Type Cylinder

Hello!

I am using ParaView 4.1.0 and I require to apply slices, as well as cuts to my model- but in cylindrical shapes.

I went through the forums thoroughly and was able to find programmable filters for the same. The Cylindrical Slice worked, but with a slight modification to cutter.SetInput() -> cutter.SetInputData().
You can see the complete code

Code:

#Change 'Output Data Set Type' to vtkPolyData



input = self.GetInputDataObject(0, 0)

inp_copy = input.NewInstance()

inp_copy.ShallowCopy(input)

inp_copy.UnRegister(None)

cutter = vtk.vtkCutter()

transf = vtk.vtkTransform()

transf.RotateX(90)

cyl = vtk.vtkCylinder()



#Define radius and cylinder centre- in the following two lines of code



cyl.SetCenter(0,0,0)

cyl.SetRadius(0.00375)

cyl.SetTransform(transf)

cutter.SetCutFunction(cyl)

cutter.SetInputData(inp_copy)

cutter.Update()

self.GetOutputDataObject(0).ShallowCopy(cutter.GetOutputDataObject(0))

I found a similar post by the same user for a cylindrical clip function which is quite consistent but for some reason it does not work. The code is below, followed by the error message I get,

Code:

input = self.GetInputDataObject(0, 0)

inp_copy = input.NewInstance()

inp_copy.ShallowCopy(input)

inp_copy.UnRegister(None)



transf = vtk.vtkTransform()

transf.RotateX(90)

cyl = vtk.vtkCylinder()

cyl.SetCenter(0,0,0)

cyl.SetRadius(0.00375)

cyl.SetTransform(transf)



clipper = vtk.vtkClipDataSet()

clipper.SetClipFunction(cyl)

clipper.SetInputData(inp_copy)

#clipper.InsideOutOn()

clipper.Update()



self.GetOutputDataObject(0).ShallowCopy(clipper.GetOutputDataObject(0))

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 22, in <module>
File "<string>", line 14, in RequestData
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'vtkClipDataSet'

Could someone please explain what is wrong with the Clip Programmable Filter?

The link for the original posts by wyldckat :

http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...-cylinder.html
http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...ere-plane.html

Would really appreciate a quick reply,

thank you in advance!