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Box Widget¶
The box widget can be enabled and disabled by the
pyvista.WidgetHelper.add_box_widget()
and
pyvista.WidgetHelper.clear_box_widgets()
methods respectively.
When enabling the box widget, you must provide a custom callback function
otherwise the box would appear and do nothing - the callback functions are
what allow us to leverage the widget to perform a task like clipping/cropping.
Considering that using a box to clip/crop a mesh is one of the most common use
cases, we have included a helper method that will allow you to add a mesh to a
scene with a box widget that controls its extent, the
pyvista.WidgetHelper.add_mesh_clip_box()
method.

import pyvista as pv
from pyvista import examples
mesh = examples.download_nefertiti()
p = pv.Plotter()
p.add_mesh_clip_box(mesh, color='white')
p.show(cpos=[-1, -1, 0.2])

Out:
[(-1167.493770554712, -1167.493770554712, 233.4987541109424),
(0.0, 0.0, 0.0),
(0.0, 0.0, 1.0)]
After interacting with the scene, the clipped mesh is available as:
p.box_clipped_meshes
Out:
[UnstructuredGrid (0x7f333ef7d7c0)
N Cells: 2018232
N Points: 1009118
X Bounds: -1.194e+02, 1.194e+02
Y Bounds: -1.813e+02, 1.813e+02
Z Bounds: -2.473e+02, 2.473e+02
N Arrays: 0
]
Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 10.921 seconds)