VMTKMESHEXTRACTPOINTDATA(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so this is vmtkmeshextractpointdata — a vmtk script, and yes bestie, its whole entire name is vmtkmeshextractpointdata. that's it, that's the vibe. she lives in section 1 of the User Commands manual, so if you're reading this at a terminal at some ungodly hour, you're in exactly the right place 🫶

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So what's the ✨lore✨ here? It's doing automatic piping — vmtkmeshextractpointdata hooks itself up into the pipe without you having to babysit it. It also handles parsing options, and then it parses options, because that's just the life it chose. vmtkmeshextractpointdata. say it with me. iconic name, no notes 💅

Her actual job, the main character moment:

vmtkmeshextractpointdata : extract the magnitude value of an array for

a point id

like. she goes in, she finds your array, she pulls out the magnitude for a given point id, she leaves. no drama, no chaos, just data extraction with main character energy 👑

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🌸 Input arguments 🌸

these are the things you feed her. she's hungry. feed her correctly 🙈

• -id Id (str,1) — default=0: the script id. it's an id. for the script. we love a little identity moment ✨
• -handle Self (self,1) — a handle to self. that's you. that's her. that's the whole thing pointing at itself, lowkey deep fr 💜
• -disabled Disabled (bool,1) — default=0: if you flip this on, execution AND piping both get switched off. it's giving "do not perceive me" energy 😭
• -i Mesh (vtkUnstructuredGrid,1) — the input mesh. your actual geometry goes here, bestie, this is the whole point 🦋
• -ifile MeshInputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Mesh reader. so if you'd rather hand over a file than a live mesh object, this is your girl 🎀
• -pointid PointId (int,1) — default=None: literally the manual says this is "the id of the cell". yes bestie, on a point data extractor, the description says cell. we do not fix it, we do not question it, we simply report it faithfully. periodt 💀
• -components ComponentsArrayNames (str,-1) — default=None. no lil description for this one, she's mysterious like that 🤫
• -array ArrayName (str,1) — default=None. the name of the array you want the magnitude from. tell her the name. she cannot read your mind (probably) 💅

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🌈 Output arguments 🌈

and here's what she hands back to you when the job is done:

• -id Id (str,1) — default=0: the script id again, back for round two, still an id, still iconic ✨
• -handle Self (self,1) — a handle to self. yes, again. she contains multitudes. or at least one self-reference. iykyk 💜

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heads up bestie: this page has no listed environment variables, no exit statuses, no files, no error sections, no bugs section, no examples, no authors, no copyright, and no SEE ALSO. that's not me holding out on you — that's genuinely the whole page. no cap. what you see is what you get 💖

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and that's the tea, fr fr 🍓 she's version 1.5, and this whole era is dated April 2026 — vmtk really said "we're from the future and we're slaying". go extract those magnitudes, bestie, you've got this 🧚⭐👑