[cgma-dev] Facet/Cholla engine

[Jane Hu]

Hmmm...

I'll put this into our bug system and hopefully find chances to fix it
either myself or by others.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Jane


On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:57 AM, David Thompson
<david.thompson at kitware.com>wrote:

> Hi Jane,
>
> > ... Other than sending facet group separately to make individual
> surfaces, I understand it's the most accurate approach, can you try to give
> an feature_angle and set split_surfaces=true to see if, first of all, it
> gives 4 surfaces?
>
> I tried using feature_angle+split_surfaces but always get a single surface
> back.
>
>         Thanks,
>         David
>
> > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 2:47 PM, David Thompson <
> david.thompson at kitware.com> wrote:
> > Hi Jane,
> >
> > > I debugged your program today, it seems that the code does have some
> bug when trying to create individual surface and body through individual
>  build_facet_surface() calls, here you are trying to create 4 surfaces and
> 4 bodies.
> >
> > I do need 4 surfaces, but just 1 body. I thought that by calling
> make_facet_shell() with all 4 of the surfaces returned by
> build_faceted_surface() that the surfaces might be stitched (or at least
> included in the same shell and thus body). Is that wrong?
> >
> > > However, I am not familiar with the code enough to make any changes.
> >
> > Thanks for taking a look at it; it's good to know it's not all my fault.
> :-)
> >
> > > I did checked that if you pass in all the facets, with empty point
> list, it can create a single FacetBody and  you can export it.
> > >
> > > I attached the changed code for you, don't know if it's sufficient for
> your purpose.
> >
> > The problem is that the faceted model I am trying to import has multiple
> model-faces (each with multiple triangles) on the same shell, which I would
> like to model with CGM. Among other things, I need to attach attributes
> (ToolData) to portions of a shell, not an entire shell at a time. Is there
> another way to do that?
> >
> >         Thanks,
> >         David
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jane Hu
> >
> > Asst. Researcher
> > Dept. of Engineering Physics
> > UW @ Madison
> >
> > "And we know that for those who love God, that is, for those who are
> called according to his purpose, all things are working together for good."
> (Romans 8:28)
>
>


-- 
Jane Hu

Asst. Researcher
Dept. of Engineering Physics
UW @ Madison

"And we know that for those who love God, that is, for those who are called
according to his purpose, all things are working together for good."
(Romans 8:28)
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