<div dir="ltr"><div><div>From VTK documerntation: <br>"vtkCylinderSource creates a polygonal cylinder centered at Center; The axis of the cylinder is aligned along the global y-axis."<br><br></div>So to achieve what you want translate output of vtkCylinderSource (which is polidata) height/2 along y-axis which will place beginning of the cylinder at origin, then rotate it about x (90 degrees ) to have axis of the cylinder aligned with Z axis.<br>
<br></div>You may look at <br><pre class=""><span class=""></span>vtkTransformPolyDataFilter<span class=""> and </span>vtkTransform<span class=""></span></pre><div>There some examples on wiki pages:<br><a href="http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/GeometricObjects/OrientedArrow">http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/GeometricObjects/OrientedArrow</a><br>
<br></div><div>Alex<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Arindam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arindam@triassicsolutions.com" target="_blank">arindam@triassicsolutions.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br>
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I am showing my 3D point with 3d glyphing with spare source. And i
want to point the points by cylinder source.But by each translation
the point is showing at the middle of cylinder source.But i want it
to come at the tip and it should point vertically .Please help me
for doing this.<br>
<img src="cid:part1.01060905.09070508@triassicsolutions.com" alt="" height="420" width="999">
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