From 2600c3ef9fa8078f77b3c83f9addc978c6bcf4f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thiago Franco de Moraes <totonixsame@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 16:03:40 -0200
Subject: [PATCH] FIX: exporting only the vertices of the mesh when exporting to PLY

---
 invesalius/data/surface.py | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/invesalius/data/surface.py b/invesalius/data/surface.py
index da5b5d2..91fa2cd 100644
--- a/invesalius/data/surface.py
+++ b/invesalius/data/surface.py
@@ -847,12 +847,13 @@ class SurfaceManager():
             #    writer = vtk.vtkIVWriter()
             elif filetype == const.FILETYPE_PLY:
                 writer = vtk.vtkPLYWriter()
-                writer.SetFileTypeToBinary()
-                writer.SetDataByteOrderToLittleEndian()
+                writer.SetFileTypeToASCII()
+                writer.SetColorModeToOff()
+                #writer.SetDataByteOrderToLittleEndian()
                 #writer.SetColorModeToUniformCellColor()
                 #writer.SetColor(255, 0, 0)
 
-            if filetype == const.FILETYPE_STL:
+            if filetype in (const.FILETYPE_STL, const.FILETYPE_PLY):
                 # Invert normals
                 normals = vtk.vtkPolyDataNormals()
                 normals.SetInput(polydata)
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