diff --git a/apps/src/render_views_tesselated_sphere.cpp b/apps/src/render_views_tesselated_sphere.cpp
index ccf3f20191e..6e73865d717 100644
--- a/apps/src/render_views_tesselated_sphere.cpp
+++ b/apps/src/render_views_tesselated_sphere.cpp
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ pcl::apps::RenderViewsTesselatedSphere::generateViews() {
 
   // Get camera positions
   vtkPolyData *sphere = subdivide->GetOutput ();
+  sphere->Update ();
 
   std::vector<Eigen::Vector3f, Eigen::aligned_allocator<Eigen::Vector3f> > cam_positions;
   if (!use_vertices_)