Extract Cells Inside Surface#

Extract the cells in a mesh that exist inside or outside a closed surface of another mesh

import pyvista as pv
from pyvista import examples

mesh = examples.download_cow()

cpos = [(13.0, 7.6, -13.85), (0.44, -0.4, -0.37), (-0.28, 0.9, 0.3)]

dargs = dict(show_edges=True)
# Rotate the mesh to have a second mesh
rot = mesh.rotate_y(90, inplace=False)

p = pv.Plotter()
p.add_mesh(mesh, color="Crimson", **dargs)
p.add_mesh(rot, color="mintcream", opacity=0.35, **dargs)
p.camera_position = cpos
p.show()
extract cells inside surface

Mark points inside with 1 and outside with a 0

select = mesh.select_enclosed_points(rot)

select
HeaderData Arrays
PolyDataInformation
N Cells3263
N Points2903
N Strips0
X Bounds-4.446e+00, 5.998e+00
Y Bounds-3.637e+00, 2.760e+00
Z Bounds-1.701e+00, 1.701e+00
N Arrays1
NameFieldTypeN CompMinMax
SelectedPointsPointsuint810.000e+001.000e+00


Extract two meshes, one completely inside and one completely outside the enclosing surface.

inside = select.threshold(0.5)
outside = select.threshold(0.5, invert=True)

display the results

p = pv.Plotter()
p.add_mesh(outside, color="Crimson", **dargs)
p.add_mesh(inside, color="green", **dargs)
p.add_mesh(rot, color="mintcream", opacity=0.35, **dargs)

p.camera_position = cpos
p.show()
extract cells inside surface

Total running time of the script: (0 minutes 0.739 seconds)

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