[Insight-users] segmentation result to Abaqus

[C.Cagatay Bilgin]

 From what I have seen from the previous emails
in the list my question might be more of a VTK
related question but here it goes.

Basically what I want to do is to save the result
of a segmentation in a format that I can open
in Abaqus. Luis suggested (apparently year
ago) to save the image as a binary VTK image
and then using VTK, open and write this image
as an STL file. I am not sure if STL is supported
by Abaqus, as far as I can see at least not in the
student version.

Assuming that STL is supported by Abaqus, my second
question is that is this conversion still the way to go
or a better way exist (better meaning no dealing with VTK
as my experience in VTK is limited). If this is the case,
I might need some pointers in VTK since I will probably
need to mesh this image before writing it as an STL
file. Any suggestions, pointers appreciated.

Thank you,
Cagatay

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