How to use .vtx files with meshalyzer?

Question

Hi,

I have created many intermediate .vtx files as part of my workflow. These are different "patches" of the original mesh. Just wanted to check if the extraction was correct and hence wanted to use meshalyzer and superimpose these individual .vtx files onto the original mesh.

Is there a readymade way or I have to use first principles to convert .vtx to .pts and then only use with meshalyzer?

Thanks in advance

~anoop

Answer 1

I don't think meshalyzer can read in vtx files directly. 

The easiest option seems to be using what's described in this question (not the answer): https://opencarp.org/q2a/125/display-point-that-varies-time-with-auxiliary-grid-meshalyzer

Comments

Thanks..

Ended up writing a small util function that indexes the mesh pts file with vertices from the vtx and saves them as another pts - to be used with meshalyzer. Not the neatest but works.

~anoop

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If you feel this would be helpful for others as well, we welcome contributions. This might fit well in the carputils repository: https://git.opencarp.org/openCARP/carputils

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Absolutely I will. Thanks for the suggestion. I think it will be a generally good addition either to meshtool convert function or to openCARP.

Regards

~anoop