VTK Export for AutoCAD

VTK Export for AutoCAD is a Visualization Toolkit (VTK) file export plug-in for AutoCAD. This plug-in gives AutoCAD the ability to export geometric data from AutoCAD to ASCII and Binary VTK files.

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VTK Export for AutoCAD extracts facet data from 3D Solids as well as 3D Face, Polygon Mesh and PolyFace Mesh objects in the active AutoCAD drawing and exports it to a VTK file. These objects can lie anywhere in space. 3D Solids are tessellated into triangular faces. The level of tessellation can be controlled by adjusting the resolution slider in the VTK Export for AutoCAD options dialog box. A lower resolution will yield coarse meshes (lesser faces), whereas a higher resolution will result in finer meshes (more faces).

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VTK Export for AutoCAD is very easy to use. Once installed, it must be loaded into the AutoCAD environment. There are simple instructions for this in the ReadMe file. Once loaded it adds new commands to AutoCAD's existing commands and a new submenu called "VTKExport" to the AutoCAD menu containing these newly added commands.