VMTKMESHCLIPCENTERLINES(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for vmtkmeshclipcenterlines — it lives in the User Commands section and it's literally just described as a vmtk script called vmtkmeshclipcenterlines. short intro, big personality. periodt. 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

vmtkmeshclipcenterlines — it's giving automatic piping, it's giving parsing options, and it's giving interactively clip a mesh using the distance to centerlines. 🌸

fr fr, here's what the script says about itself:

Automatic piping vmtkmeshclipcenterlines Parsing options
vmtkmeshclipcenterlines

and the actual mission statement, verbatim:

vmtkmeshclipcenterlines : interactively clip a mesh using the distance
       to centerlines

so cute, so powerful, so iconic. now let's get into the options because there are a LOT of them and honestly? obsessed. 🎀

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🌈 Input arguments:

• -id Id (str,1); default=0 — the script id. classic lil identity moment. 💖
• -handle Self (self,1) — a handle to self. self-care, literally. 🫶
• -disabled Disabled (bool,1); default=0 — disable execution and piping. when you need this thing to sit down and be quiet. 😭
• -i Mesh (vtkUnstructuredGrid,1) — the input mesh, a.k.a. the main character. ✨
• -ifile MeshInputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Mesh reader.
• -centerlines Centerlines (vtkPolyData,1) — no lil description attached to this one, it simply IS. 👑
• -centerlinesfile CenterlinesInputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Centerlines reader.
• -radiusarray RadiusArrayName (str,1); default=MaximumInscribedSphereRadius
• -polyballtype PolyBallType (int,1); default=0 — type of polyball used (0: global, 1: local). pick your fighter. 🌈
• -polyballres PolyBallResolution (int,3); default=[32, 32, 32] — grid resolution for displaying the polyball.
• -insideout InsideOut (bool,1); default=1 — choose whether to clip the inside or outside of the polyball. plot twist energy. 🔥
• -entityidsarray CellEntityIdsArrayName (str,1); default=CellEntityIds
• -wallid WallCellEntityId (int,1); default=1 — id of the first surface cells in the entityids list.
• -tol Tolerance (float,1); default=-1.0 — tolerance used to reproject the entity ids on the new surface.
• -ofile MeshOutputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Mesh writer.
• -clippedmeshfile ClippedMeshOutputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default ClippedMesh writer.

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🦋 Output arguments:

• -id Id (str,1); default=0 — the script id. yes it shows up twice, and honestly? she contains multitudes. 💜
• -handle Self (self,1) — handle to self, again. consistency queen. 👑
• -o Mesh (vtkUnstructuredGrid,1) — the output mesh.
• -clippedmesh ClippedMesh (vtkUnstructuredGrid,1) — the clipped mesh. the moment we've all been waiting for. 🎀

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heads up bestie: this page is vmtkmeshclipcenterlines 1.5, and it's dated April 2026 🌸

and that's the whole page, no cap. go clip some meshes, you absolute genius. slay 💅✨🫶