VTK Installation

VTK Installation for QVTK Configuration

Download VTK from

http://www.vtk.org/VTK/resources/software.html

Now follow these steps:

1.            Make a VTK folder where VTK will be installed and build

2.            Make two subdirectories inside VTK folder .Name them src and bin .

3.            Extract all files of downloaded VTK zip file into src

4.            Open Cmake GUI

5.            Enter path of src into Where is the source code:

6.            Enter path of bin into Where to build binaries:

7.            Click Configure. If compiler selection window popup then select compiler for example if you are                                                                                                        building for 64 bit choose 64 bit compiler(Caution: 64 bit VTK Build require 64 bit Qt library for that you can refer our Qt installation 64 bit  post).

8.            Click on Checkbox adjacent to VTK_USE_GUISUPPORT [as shown in Figure1].

9.            Click Configure.

Figure 1

10.          Click on Checkbox adjacent to VTK_USE_QVTK [as shown in Figure2].

11.          Check for DESIRED_QT_VERSION. It should be set itself otherwise write 4 [as shown in Figure3].

12.          Click on Checkbox adjacent to BUILD_DOCUMENTATION [as shown in Figure4].

13.          Under Build uncheck BUILD_SHARED_LIB.

Figure 2

Figure 3

14.          Now click configure again and generate

15.          Now check for VTK.sln in bin folder and build it in Visual Studio.

Using QVTK Widget in Qt designer

·         You have to built VTK in release mode, it should have generated a library file called lib QVTKWidgetPlugin.dll. [only if you are using VTK5.0 for other version you have to keep BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON]

·       Copy this dll in the [QTinstallDir]/plugins/designer/ directory, the QVTKWidget should show up at the bottom of the Widget Box (that list of widgets panel on the left in Designer).