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Load an the contents of an STL file into a vtkPolyData object with Python and VTK #python #vtk #fileIO #visualizaton #stl
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Assuming we have an .stl file under filenameSTL we can load the contents of that file using the vtkSTLReader class as such:

readerSTL = vtk.vtkSTLReader()
readerSTL.SetFileName(filenameSTL)
# 'update' the reader i.e. read the .stl file
readerSTL.Update()

polydata = readerSTL.GetOutput()

# If there are no points in 'vtkPolyData' something went wrong
if polydata.GetNumberOfPoints() == 0:
    raise ValueError("No point data could be loaded from '" + filenameSTL)
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how can i get no of triangles on a mesh ?

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