How to get VTK working in Eclipse

EDIT: These links seem to be down. This is bad.

Although I mentioned in this post that VTK was too complex and powerful for what we needed, I have decided that it might be a viable option after all. I was able to get it working in eclipse using the following process.

Thanks to the guys at http://dev.artenum.com/ for most of this information.

1. Download the latest Cassandra release from here.
2. Run the installer.
3. Open a project in eclipse
4. Add vtk.jar to your build path

• right click on the root project
• click 'properties'
• click 'libraries'
• click 'add external jar'
• Add 'vtk.jar' which can be found in '\Cassandra\thirdpart\vtk5.0-32b\bin'

5. Edit your run configuration

• click the drop-down arrow next to the green run button
• click 'Run Configuration'
• In the right hand pane, expand 'Java Application'
• choose your project
• click the 'environment' tab
• click 'New' to create a new environment variable
• name the variable 'PATH'
• set its value to the absolute path (include drive letter etc...) of '\Cassandra\thirdpart\vtk5.0-32b\bin'

Everything should work now. Here is some sample code (also taken from http://dev.artenum.com)

Thanks again to http://dev.artenum.com. Original article.