VMTKSURFACEWRITER2(1)

💖 NAME 💖

vmtksurfacewriter2 — the vmtk script bestie, lowercase, iconic, does exactly one thing and does it well ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so. automatic piping for vmtksurfacewriter, plus parsing options for vmtksurfacewriter. basically it handles all the boring plumbing for you so you don't have to, no cap 💅

vmtksurfacewriter : write surface to disk. that's the whole vibe. it takes a surface and it puts it on your disk. main character energy, truly 🌸

✨ Input arguments: ✨

• -id Id (str,1); default=0 — the script id 🎀
• -handle Self (self,1) — handle to self, aka the little handshake it does with itself 🫶
• -disabled Disabled (bool,1); default=0 — disable execution and piping. flip this on and it just... doesn't. goes 👻
• -i Surface (vtkPolyData,1) — the input surface, the star of the show, the one we're writing out 👑
• -ifile SurfaceInputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Surface reader, so the reader knows where to look 🍓
• -f Format (str,1) in ['vtkxml', 'vtk', 'stl', 'pointdata', 'tecplot'] — the file format. those are the options, that's the list, pick one 🌈
• -guessformat GuessFormat (bool,1); default=1 — guess the file format from the extension. detective mode, on by default 🔍✨
• -celldata CellData (bool,1); default=0 — write CellData when using pointdata format. only for that format, iykyk 💜
• -ofile OutputFileName (str,1) — output file name. this is the one you want, use this one 💖
• -o OutputFileName (str,1) — output file name (deprecated: use -ofile). she's old, she's retired, let her rest 😭

⚠️ bestie listen. -o is deprecated, okay? like, it still exists, it still works, but the manual literally says use -ofile. do not be texting your ex options. use -ofile. 💀

• -ascii Ascii (boolean,1) — write the data as ascii. plain text vibes, no binary nonsense 🧚

🌟 Output arguments: 🌟

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

that's it. that's the whole page. every flag accounted for, nothing skipped, we ate and left no crumbs 💅✨

so anyway, this was vmtksurfacewriter2 version 1.5, from April 2026, living her best life in the User Commands section of your manual, and she'd love it if you'd pipe her into something nice 🎀💜