PolyData.is_all_triangles

property PolyData.is_all_triangles: bool

Return if all the faces of the pyvista.PolyData are triangles.

Changed in version 0.50: A mesh with triangle strips is no longer all triangles.

Returns:

bool

True if all the faces of the pyvista.PolyData are triangles and it contains no vertices, lines or strips.

Examples

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Show a mesh from pyvista.Plane() is not composed of all triangles.

>>> import pyvista as pv
>>> plane = pv.Plane()
>>> plane.is_all_triangles
False

Show that the mesh from pyvista.Sphere() contains only triangles.

>>> sphere = pv.Sphere()
>>> sphere.is_all_triangles
True