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| Vivek Verma | 2004/03/25 22:00 | I have a closed triangulated surface that I would like to combine with other solids using boolean operations but the program crashes during the boolean operation. Could someone please tell me what I am doing wrong? I suspect that I am not creating the solid object correctly from my triangulated surface but I don't know if there is a better way to create a solid from a set of triangles.
I would greatly appreciate any help.
thanks,
-vivek
The following illustrates what I am doing:
// create a tetrahedron from points
//
// vertices->edges->wires->faces->shell
gp_Pnt v1(1, 0, 0);
gp_Pnt v2(0, 1, 0);
gp_Pnt v3(0, 0, 1);
gp_Pnt v4(0, 0, 0);
// first create edges
TopoDS_Edge e[6];
e[0] = BRepBuilderAPI_MakeEdge(v1,v4);
e[1] = BRepBuilderAPI_MakeEdge(v4,v2);
e[2] = BRepBuilderAPI_MakeEdge(v4,v3);
e[3] = BRepBuilderAPI_MakeEdge(v2,v1);
e[4] = BRepBuilderAPI_MakeEdge(v3,v2);
e[5] = BRepBuilderAPI_MakeEdge(v3,v1);
// now create wires
//
TopoDS_Wire w[4];
w[0] = BRepBuilderAPI_MakeWire(e[5], e[3], e[4]);
w[1] = BRepBuilderAPI_MakeWire(e[1], e[3], e[0]);
w[2] = BRepBuilderAPI_MakeWire(e[0], e[5], e[2]);
w[3] = BRepBuilderAPI_MakeWire(e[2], e[4], e[1]);
// use the above wires to create faces
//
TopoDS_Face f[4];
f[0] = BRepBuilderAPI_MakeFace(w[0]);
f[1] = BRepBuilderAPI_MakeFace(w[1]);
f[2] = BRepBuilderAPI_MakeFace(w[2]);
f[3] = BRepBuilderAPI_MakeFace(w[3]);
// sew the faces together to create a shell
//
BRepOffsetAPI_Sewing Sew;
for(int j=0; j<4; ++j)
Sew.Add(f[j]);
Sew.Perform();
TopoDS_Shape shell= Sew.SewedShape();
// create a solid box
//
gp_Pnt P(0,0,0);
TopoDS_Shape theBox = BRepPrimAPI_MakeBox(0.5,0.5,0.5);
// fuse the tetrahedron with the box
// -- this is where the program crashes
//
TopoDS_Shape FusedShape = BRepAlgoAPI_Fuse(theBox,shell); | |
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| CTavernier | 2004/03/26 10:50 | Hi Vivek,
Replace the end of your code with:
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Sew.Perform();
TopoDS_Shape shape = Sew.SewedShape();
TopoDS_Shell shell = TopoDS::Shell(shape);
// Create a SOLID tetrahedron
TopoDS_Solid solid = BRepBuilderAPI_MakeSolid(shell);
solid.Reverse();
// Create a solid box
TopoDS_Shape theBox = BRepPrimAPI_MakeBox(0.5,0.5,0.5);
// Fuse the SOLID tetrahedron with the box
TopoDS_Shape FusedShape = BRepAlgoAPI_Fuse(theBox,solid);
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It should work.
I also reverse the solid tetrahedron to have a good result.
Regards,
Christian | |
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| Björn Hagemeier | 2004/10/20 10:01 | Hi Christian,
I know you've made your posting a long while ago. I'm having trouble using similar code. Actually I tried your suggestion, too. I have a rather large wireframe model of ~60000 triangles, but I can't get a valid sewed shape from the sewer (TypeMismatch). Do you know any solution? I also need to create a solid for boolean operations.
Regards,
Björn | |
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