Best way to implement VTK 9.1 with Qt6 using QML (and Qt Quick...)

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Hello everyone,
I want to implent VTK 9.1 with Qt6 in a QtQuick project, whats is the best way to proceed ? Qt6 suggests using QRhi and QSGMaterialShader for handling graphical APIs (for better abstraction) like OpenGl or Vulkan, but is this also applicable to VTK? How to use a QQuickWindow to render with VTK but without using QQMLApplication engine?
Thanks for your help

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@sankhesh?

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VTK provides QtQuick/ QML support via the VTK::GUISupportQtQuick module. Enable it via cmake while configuring VTK. Take a look at the module tests for example usage.

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Hello, do you have any suggestions/examples on how to use Qt6, QML, QtQuick in a VTK Python project?

Thanks!

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@bistek, I don’t think so. If you do investigate and get it up and running, please consider contributing the example to vtk.

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“Enable it via cmake while configuring VTK”, how do you configure it to enable it, could you elaborate, hard to find document on this. thanks!

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https://docs.vtk.org/en/latest/build_instructions/index.html

build instruction has no mention of any customized or advanced configuration features. why is that, considering vtk a package of many years of development.

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new to the c++ VTk, could someone help on this. Thanks.

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The build settings page goes into more details for enabling/disabling modules. You can enable the module via CMake option VTK_MODULE_ENABLE_VTK_GUISupportQtQuick:STRING=YES.

And please start a new topic for new questions.
Edit: I see that you posted here: how to build vtk with qt6 qml support, and how to build vtk examples

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thanks. still warming up on QT/VTK/CMake, it seems checking advanced option in Cmake app enables the showing of these options.

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Shouldn’t it be VTK_MODULE_ENABLE_GUISupportQtQuick?