VMTKBOUNDARYLAYER2(1)

💖 vmtkboundarylayer2(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to vmtkboundarylayer2, a User Command, and honestly? she's a whole vibe. manual page one, script icon energy, let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

vmtkboundarylayer2 — it's a vmtk script, and yes the script is also named vmtkboundarylayer2, we're doing full name-brand synergy here 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Automatic piping, vmtkboundarylayer2. Parsing options, vmtkboundarylayer2. that's the plumbing doing its little plumbing thing, no notes, it just works ✨

Here's the actual tea, and I'm quoting her exactly:

vmtkboundarylayer2 : create a prismatic boundary layer from a surface mesh and a set of vectors defined on the nodes

so like... surface mesh + a set of vectors on the nodes goes in, prismatic boundary layer comes out. she ate and left no crumbs 👑

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🎀 Input arguments

the way she has SO many knobs to turn, obsessed, lowkey overwhelming highkey iconic. one bullet each, nothing skipped, fr fr:

• -id Id (str,1); default=0 — the script id, aka her little name tag 🏷️
• -handle Self (self,1) — a handle to self. self-love! we stan! this one has no default, it's just... herself 💖
• -disabled Disabled (bool,1); default=0 — flip this and execution and piping are disabled. she's off duty 💀
• -i Mesh (vtkUnstructuredGrid,1) — the input mesh. the main character of the whole operation, ngl
• -ifile MeshInputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Mesh reader. feed her a file 🍓
• -warpvectorsarray WarpVectorsArrayName (str,1); default=Normals — the name of the array where the warp vectors are stored
• -thicknessarray ThicknessArrayName (str,1) — the name of the array where the scalars that define boundary layer thickness are stored
• -thickness Thickness (float,1); default=1.0 — the value of a constant boundary layer thickness
• -thicknessratio ThicknessRatio (float,1) >= 0.0; default=0.1 — the multiplying factor for boundary layer thickness. has to be >= 0.0, don't try it, she will notice 🙈
• -maximumthickness MaximumThickness (float,1); default=10000000000.0 — the maximum allowed value for boundary layer thickness. that's ten billion btw, she does not do subtle 🌈
• -numberofsublayers NumberOfSubLayers (int,1) >= 0; default=1 — how many sublayers the boundary layer has to be made of. >= 0, zero is legal, queen of the low end 🧚
• -sublayerratio SubLayerRatio (float,1) >= 0.0; default=1.0 — the ratio between the thicknesses of two successive boundary layers
• -warpvectormagnitudeasthickness UseWarpVectorMagnitudeAsThickness (bool,1); default=0 — compute the boundary layer thickness as the norm of the warp vectors
• -constantthickness ConstantThickness (bool,1); default=0 — toggles constant boundary layer thickness
• -includesurfacecells IncludeSurfaceCells (bool,1); default=1 — include all surface cells in the output mesh
• -negatewarpvectors NegateWarpVectors (bool,1); default=0 — flips the orientation of the warp vectors. turn around, bright eyes ✨
• -cellentityidsarray CellEntityIdsArrayName (str,1); default=CellEntityIds — the name of the array where the cell entity ids get stored
• -openprofilesidsarray OpenProfilesIdsArrayName (str,1) — the name of the array that says which points are on open profiles
• -includeextrudedopenprofilescells IncludeExtrudedOpenProfilesCells (bool,1); default=1 — include the cells from the open profiles extruded surface in the output mesh
• -includeextrudedsurfacecells IncludeExtrudedSurfaceCells (bool,1); default=1 — include the cells from the extruded surface in the output mesh
• -includeoriginalsurfacecells IncludeOriginalSurfaceCells (bool,1); default=1 — include the cells from the original surface in the output mesh
• -layerentityid LayerEntityId (int,1); default=0 — the id assigned to the volumetric layer
• -surfaceentityid SurfaceEntityId (int,1); default=1 — the id assigned to the first surface entity (the ids go increasingly, they're climbing 📈)
• -openprofilesentityid OpenProfilesEntityId (int,1); default=2 — the id assigned to the first extruded open profile (again, ids go increasingly)
• -ofile MeshOutputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Mesh writer
• -oinnerfile InnerSurfaceMeshOutputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default InnerSurfaceMesh writer

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🦋 Output arguments

what she gives back to you, and she always gives back 💜:

• -id Id (str,1); default=0 — the script id
• -handle Self (self,1) — handle to self, still holding her own hand, still valid
• -o Mesh (vtkUnstructuredGrid,1) — the output mesh. the moment we've all been waiting for ⭐
• -oinner InnerSurfaceMesh (vtkUnstructuredGrid,1) — the output inner surface mesh. the inner layer, the soft launch, the sequel 🎀

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that's the whole page bestie, no cap, every single flag accounted for, we did not skip a single one because that would be so not it.

this icon was brought to you as vmtkboundarylayer2 1.5, dated April 2026 — mwah, slay, periodt 💅💖