<font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">First of all, doing 3 transformations on a polydata like that is inefficient. Try this:</font></font><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><div style>vtkSmartPointer&lt;vtkTransform&gt; ntrans = vtkSmartPointer&lt;vtkTransform&gt;::New();</div>

<div style>ntrans-&gt;Translate(np);</div><div><span style>ntrans-&gt;RotateZ(rot_</span><span style>angle);</span></div><div><font><span style>ntrans-&gt;Translate(pp);</span></font></div><div><font><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">//perhaps do this in reverse order (or turn on postMultiply</font><span style>)</span></font></div>

<div><font><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">//also take a look at matrix returned by ntrans-&gt;GetMatrix(), it is helpful for debugging<br></font></font><br><div style>vtkSmartPointer&lt;vtkTransformPolyDataFilter&gt; nTranslateFilter = </div>

<div style>       vtkSmartPointer&lt;vtkTransformPolyDataFilter&gt;::New();</div><div style>nTranslateFilter-&gt;SetInput( polyData );   // polyData is an object of type vtkPolyData</div><div style>nTranslateFilter-&gt;SetTransform(ntrans);</div>

<div style>nTranslateFilter-&gt;Update();</div><div><br></div><div><div style>vtkSmartPointer&lt;vtkPolyDataMapper&gt; pdmapper = vtkSmartPointer&lt;vtkPolyDataMapper&gt;::New();</div><div style>pdmapper-&gt;SetInputConnection(nTranslateFilter-&gt;GetOutputPort() );</div>

<div style>pdmapper-&gt;ScalarVisibilityOff();</div><div style><br></div><div style>vtkSmartPointer&lt;vtkActor&gt; actor = vtkSmartPointer&lt;vtkActor&gt;::New();</div><div style>actor-&gt;SetMapper(pdmapper);</div></div>

<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 04:31, rakesh patil <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:prakeshofficial@gmail.com">prakeshofficial@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

Hello,<div><br></div><div>I am using this particular code to perform the following set of transformations</div><div><br></div><div>Translate -&gt; Rotate -&gt; Translate</div><div><br></div><div>vtkSmartPointer&lt;vtkTransform&gt; ntrans = vtkSmartPointer&lt;vtkTransform&gt;::New();</div>


<div>ntrans-&gt;Translate(np);</div><div><br></div><div>vtkSmartPointer&lt;vtkTransform&gt; ptrans = vtkSmartPointer&lt;vtkTransform&gt;::New();</div><div>ptrans-&gt;Translate(pp);</div><div><br></div><div><div>vtkSmartPointer&lt;vtkTransform&gt; rotateTrans = vtkSmartPointer&lt;vtkTransform&gt;::New();</div>


<div>rotateTrans-&gt;RotateZ(rot_angle);</div><br></div><div>vtkSmartPointer&lt;vtkTransformPolyDataFilter&gt; nTranslateFilter = </div><div>       vtkSmartPointer&lt;vtkTransformPolyDataFilter&gt;::New();</div>
<div>nTranslateFilter-&gt;SetInput( polyData );   // polyData is an object of type vtkPolyData</div><div>nTranslateFilter-&gt;SetTransform(ntrans);</div><div>nTranslateFilter-&gt;Update();</div><div><br></div><div><div>vtkSmartPointer&lt;vtkTransformPolyDataFilter&gt; rotateFilter = </div>


<div>       vtkSmartPointer&lt;vtkTransformPolyDataFilter&gt;::New();</div><div>rotateFilter-&gt;SetInputConnection( nTranslateFilter-&gt;GetOutputPort() );</div><div>rotateFilter-&gt;SetTransform(rotateTrans);</div><div>


rotateFilter-&gt;Update();</div></div><div><br></div><div><div>vtkSmartPointer&lt;vtkTransformPolyDataFilter&gt; pTranslateFilter = </div><div>       vtkSmartPointer&lt;vtkTransformPolyDataFilter&gt;::New();</div><div>pTranslateFilter-&gt;SetInputConnection( rotateFilter-&gt;GetOutputPort() );</div>


<div>pTranslateFilter-&gt;SetTransform(ptrans);</div><div>pTranslateFilter-&gt;Update();</div></div><div><br></div><div>vtkSmartPointer&lt;vtkPolyDataMapper&gt; pdmapper = vtkSmartPointer&lt;vtkPolyDataMapper&gt;::New();</div>


<div>pdmapper-&gt;SetInputConnection(pTranslateFilter-&gt;GetOutputPort() );</div><div>pdmapper-&gt;ScalarVisibilityOff();</div><div><br></div><div>vtkSmartPointer&lt;vtkActor&gt; actor = vtkSmartPointer&lt;vtkActor&gt;::New();</div>


<div>actor-&gt;SetMapper(pdmapper);</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>With this code, I can see that the transformation is done only till rotation. Next translation is not shown. Can anyone point out where I am going wrong? </div>


<div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Rakesh Patil</div><div><br></div>
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