Open gattia opened 2 years ago
Fileversion is the old legacy version because new tools (Slicer, Paraview) dont support vtk version 5.1 which shipped with VTK 9.
https://discourse.vtk.org/t/legacy-polydata-file-compatibility/5354 https://discourse.vtk.org/t/can-we-write-out-the-old-vtk-4-2-file-format-with-vtk-9/5066/17 https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/-/merge_requests/7652/diffs?commit_id=7f76b9e97b1a05cfe4fcd5f9af58f0d7a385b639#528e66f324b988666af9696641f935da71b6f670
For now, vtk < 9 is a requirement.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63396725/change-vtk-datafile-version
This provides a way to convert from new to old version of vtk files
Fileversion is the old legacy version because new tools (Slicer, Paraview) dont support vtk version 5.1 which shipped with VTK 9.
https://discourse.vtk.org/t/legacy-polydata-file-compatibility/5354 https://discourse.vtk.org/t/can-we-write-out-the-old-vtk-4-2-file-format-with-vtk-9/5066/17 https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/-/merge_requests/7652/diffs?commit_id=7f76b9e97b1a05cfe4fcd5f9af58f0d7a385b639#528e66f324b988666af9696641f935da71b6f670
For now, vtk < 9 is a requirement.