VMTKSURFACEWRITER(1)

💖 VMTKSURFACEWRITER 💖

okay bestie, so this is vmtksurfacewriter from the vmtk squad — it lives in the User Commands section of the manual, and it is literally here to do one iconic thing: write your surface to disk. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

vmtksurfacewriter — the vmtk script that goes by vmtksurfacewriter 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here's the vibe: vmtksurfacewriter does automatic piping, and it parses its options, no cap. That's just what it does out here.

vmtksurfacewriter : write surface to disk 🎀

💜 Input arguments:

• -id Id (str,1); default=0 — script id
• -handle Self (self,1) — handle to self
• -disabled Disabled (bool,1); default=0 — disable execution and piping
• -i Surface (vtkPolyData,1) — the input surface
• -ifile SurfaceInputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Surface reader
• -f Format (str,1) in ['vtkxml', 'vtk', 'stl', 'ply', 'pointdata', 'tecplot', 'wavefront', 'vtm'] — file format
• -guessformat GuessFormat (bool,1); default=1 — guess file format from extension
• -celldata CellData (bool,1); default=0 — write CellData when using pointdata format
• -mode Mode (str,1) in ['ascii', 'binary']; default=binary — write files in ASCII or binary mode
• -ofile OutputFileName (str,1) — output file name
• -o OutputFileName (str,1) — output file name (deprecated: use -ofile)

🚨 bestie heads up: -o is deprecated, the manual is literally begging you to use -ofile instead. don't be the person still using -o, iykyk 😭

🌈 Output arguments:

• -id Id (str,1); default=0 — script id
• -handle Self (self,1) — handle to self

and that's the whole page, periodt 💖 go write some surfaces, you absolute main character 👑

this was vmtksurfacewriter version 1.5, dated April 2026 — mwah, sending you off with love 🫶✨