Hi, David<br><br>Here is a short demo code. It is built in an empty console application in Windows 7 with Visual Studio 2008(C++)<br><br>//----------------------------------------------------<br>#include &lt;vtkPolyData.h&gt;<br>
#include &lt;vtkPoints.h&gt;<br>#include &lt;vtkCellArray.h&gt;<br>#include &lt;vtkGenericDataObjectReader.h&gt;<br><br>vtkPolyData* polydata = vtkPolyData::New();                // error pops<br>vtkPoints* points = vtkPoints::New();                           // no error<br>
vtkCellArray* polygon = vtkCellArray::New();                // no error<br>vtkGenericDataObjectReader* reader = vtkGenericDataObjectReader::New();<br><br>void main()<br>{<br>    reader-&gt;SetFileName(&quot;C:\\Users\\Wenlong\\Desktop\\surface.vtk&quot;);<br>
    reader-&gt;OpenVTKFile();<br>    reader-&gt;Update();<br><br>    polydata = reader-&gt;GetPolyDataOutput();<br>    points = polydata-&gt;GetPoints();<br>    polygon = polydata-&gt;GetPolys();<br>}<br><br>Many thanks.<br>
<br>Wenlng<br>