I’m trying to transport a mesh from a .vtu file to blender, i’m able to transport the vertices but i’m having problems with faces. What i need is the ids of the vertices of every face so i can create the mesh in blender. Also i don’t understand if in my .vtu file faces are triangles, quads or something else… So far my code in python (answers in C/C++ are fine too) looks like this.
import vtkmodules.all as vtk
# The source file
file_name = r"C:/Users/manue/Desktop/Frohne_box/initial_solution_data_001.0.vtu"
# Read the source file.
reader = vtk.vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader()
reader.SetFileName(file_name)
reader.Update()
mesh = reader.GetOutput()
points = mesh.GetPoints()
# get vertices
verts = []
if points:
for x in range(points.GetNumberOfPoints()):
a=[0,0,0]
p=points.GetPoint(x,a)
verts.append(a)
# get faces
faces = []
# Here i have to do something with cells i think, i've made many attempts but
# none of them worked well, this is the last one
for i in range(mesh.GetNumberOfCells()):
face = mesh.GetCell(i)
face_points_ids = []
for p in range(8):
face_points_ids.append(face.GetPointId(p))
faces.append(face_points_ids)
mesh = bpy.data.meshes.new("New object")
obj = bpy.data.objects.new("New object",mesh)
col = bpy.data.collections.get("Collection")
col.objects.link(obj)
bpy.context.view_layer.objects.active = obj
#mesh.from_pydata(verts, [], faces)
mesh.from_pydata(verts, [], [])
The output of that code is this:
