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Time remains the most scarce resource but I feel obliged to share some new materials with you as you may expect continuation of the series. As usual, many thanks for your patience and interest !
Skinning and lofting
This is a technique to create a model (surface or shell, or solid body) using curve constraints which the surface passes through. Below is an example of a surface built using skinning:
Skinning and lofting are actually the same technique and Open CASCADE does not make a difference between them. ACIS kernel does make a little difference (in terms of types of the inputs parameters and way of constraints definition) but also stresses that these are very similar.
Here is how you would create a surface using skinning technique:
Handle(Geom_Surface) ACISAlgo::MakeSkinSurface (
const NCollection_List<Handle(Geom_Curve)>& theSections)
{
//populate section generator
GeomFill_SectionGenerator aSecGenerator;
for (NCollection_List<Handle(Geom_Curve)>::Iterator anIt (theSections); anIt.More();
anIt.Next()) {
const Handle(Geom_Curve)& aCurve = anIt.Value();
aSecGenerator.AddCurve (aCurve);
}
aSecGenerator.Perform (Precision::PConfusion());
Handle(GeomFill_Line) aLine = new GeomFill_Line (theSections.Size());
//parameters
const Standard_Integer aMinDeg = 1, aMaxDeg = BSplCLib::MaxDegree(), aNbIt = 0;
Standard_Real aTol3d = 1e-4, aTol2d = Precision::Parametric (aTol3d);
//algorithm
GeomFill_AppSurf anAlgo (aMinDeg, aMaxDeg, aTol3d, aTol2d, aNbIt);
anAlgo.Perform (aLine, aSecGenerator);
Handle(Geom_Surface) aRes;
if (!anAlgo.IsDone()) {
return aRes;
}
aRes = new Geom_BSplineSurface(anAlgo.SurfPoles(), anAlgo.SurfWeights(),
anAlgo.SurfUKnots(), anAlgo.SurfVKnots(), anAlgo.SurfUMults(), anAlgo.SurfVMults(),
anAlgo.UDegree(), anAlgo.VDegree());
...
Curves must be bounded and consistently parameterized (so that parameter growth was in one direction). Final B-Spline will be parameterized [Umin, Umax; 0., 1.], where U parametrization is calculated depending on the curves parametrization. U parameter goes along the section curves, and V parameter goes across the curves.
When working at topological level you can use the following code:
Standard_Boolean anIsSolid = Standard_False;
Standard_Boolean anIsRuled = Standard_False;
BRepOffsetAPI_ThruSections aGenerator (anIsSolid,anIsRuled);
...
//add constraints
for (...) {
aGenerator.AddWire (TopoDS::Wire (aConstraint));
}
Standard_Boolean anIsCheck = ...;
aGenerator.CheckCompatibility (anIsCheck);
aGenerator.Build();
const TopoDS_Shape& aResult = Generator.Shape();
The topological algorithm may attempt to create a closed solid if the boundary constraints are planar.
Unlike ACIS, Open CASCADE only allows to specify curve constraints but does not give a way to specify tangential ones. So you will basically rely on underlying algorithms which try to smoothen the surface being built.
To be continued...
Time remains the most scarce resource but I feel obliged to share some new materials with you as you may expect continuation of the series. As usual, many thanks for your patience and interest !
Skinning and lofting
This is a technique to create a model (surface or shell, or solid body) using curve constraints which the surface passes through. Below is an example of a surface built using skinning:
Skinning and lofting are actually the same technique and Open CASCADE does not make a difference between them. ACIS kernel does make a little difference (in terms of types of the inputs parameters and way of constraints definition) but also stresses that these are very similar.
Here is how you would create a surface using skinning technique:
Handle(Geom_Surface) ACISAlgo::MakeSkinSurface (
const NCollection_List<Handle(Geom_Curve)>& theSections)
{
//populate section generator
GeomFill_SectionGenerator aSecGenerator;
for (NCollection_List<Handle(Geom_Curve)>::Iterator anIt (theSections); anIt.More();
anIt.Next()) {
const Handle(Geom_Curve)& aCurve = anIt.Value();
aSecGenerator.AddCurve (aCurve);
}
aSecGenerator.Perform (Precision::PConfusion());
Handle(GeomFill_Line) aLine = new GeomFill_Line (theSections.Size());
//parameters
const Standard_Integer aMinDeg = 1, aMaxDeg = BSplCLib::MaxDegree(), aNbIt = 0;
Standard_Real aTol3d = 1e-4, aTol2d = Precision::Parametric (aTol3d);
//algorithm
GeomFill_AppSurf anAlgo (aMinDeg, aMaxDeg, aTol3d, aTol2d, aNbIt);
anAlgo.Perform (aLine, aSecGenerator);
Handle(Geom_Surface) aRes;
if (!anAlgo.IsDone()) {
return aRes;
}
aRes = new Geom_BSplineSurface(anAlgo.SurfPoles(), anAlgo.SurfWeights(),
anAlgo.SurfUKnots(), anAlgo.SurfVKnots(), anAlgo.SurfUMults(), anAlgo.SurfVMults(),
anAlgo.UDegree(), anAlgo.VDegree());
...
Curves must be bounded and consistently parameterized (so that parameter growth was in one direction). Final B-Spline will be parameterized [Umin, Umax; 0., 1.], where U parametrization is calculated depending on the curves parametrization. U parameter goes along the section curves, and V parameter goes across the curves.
When working at topological level you can use the following code:
Standard_Boolean anIsSolid = Standard_False;
Standard_Boolean anIsRuled = Standard_False;
BRepOffsetAPI_ThruSections aGenerator (anIsSolid,anIsRuled);
...
//add constraints
for (...) {
aGenerator.AddWire (TopoDS::Wire (aConstraint));
}
Standard_Boolean anIsCheck = ...;
aGenerator.CheckCompatibility (anIsCheck);
aGenerator.Build();
const TopoDS_Shape& aResult = Generator.Shape();
The topological algorithm may attempt to create a closed solid if the boundary constraints are planar.
Unlike ACIS, Open CASCADE only allows to specify curve constraints but does not give a way to specify tangential ones. So you will basically rely on underlying algorithms which try to smoothen the surface being built.
To be continued...
