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Slice (Cut)

This filter slices a data set with a plane. Slicing is similar to a contour. It creates surfaces from volumes and lines from surfaces.

This filter extracts the portion of the input dataset that lies along the specified plane. The Slice filter takes any type of dataset or hyper tree grid as input. The output of this filter is polygonal data.

Property Description Default(s) Restrictions
Input This property specifies the input to the Slice filter.  

Accepts input of following types:

  • vtkDataSet
  • vtkHyperTreeGrid
Slice Type This property sets the parameters of the slice function.  

The value can be one of the following:

  • Plane (implicit_functions)
  • Box (implicit_functions)
  • Sphere (implicit_functions)
  • Cylinder (implicit_functions)
Hyper Tree Grid Slicer This property sets the parameters of the slice function.  

The value can be one of the following:

  • Plane (implicit_functions)
  • Axis Aligned Plane (implicit_functions)
InputBounds      
Use Dual If checked, uses the dual of the hyper tree grid. 0

Accepts boolean values (0 or 1).
Crinkle slice This parameter controls whether to extract the entire cells that are sliced by the region or just extract a triangulated surface of that region. 0

Accepts boolean values (0 or 1).
Triangulate the slice This parameter controls whether to produce triangles in the output. 1

Accepts boolean values (0 or 1).
Merge duplicated points in the slice This parameter controls whether to merge duplicated points in the slice. 1

Accepts boolean values (0 or 1).
Slice Offset Values The values in this property specify a list of current offset values. This can be used to create multiple slices with different centers. Each entry represents a new slice with its center shifted by the offset value.  

Determine the length of the dataset's diagonal. The value must lie within -diagonal length to +diagonal length.