pyvista.CellType.vtk_class

pyvista.CellType.vtk_class#

property CellType.vtk_class: type[vtkCell] | None[source]#

Return the vtkCell class associated with this cell type.

Only concrete VTK classes that can instantiated are returned. None is returned if the cell type has no corresponding VTK class or if the class is abstract.

Added in version 0.48.

See also

pyvista.Cell

Examples

Get the VTK class associated with the TRIANGLE cell type.

>>> import pyvista as pv
>>> pv.CellType.TRIANGLE.vtk_class
<class 'vtkmodules.vtkCommonDataModel.vtkTriangle'>

Abstract cell types like HIGHER_ORDER_HEXAHEDRON return None.

>>> pv.CellType.HIGHER_ORDER_HEXAHEDRON.vtk_class is None
True
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