Wed, 01/23/2013 - 19:36
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Dear OCC supervisors and users,
I want to detect and show creases/knuckles in my CAD model. Is there any functionality in OpenCASCADE to deal with? if yes how?
Looking forward your response
Thank you in advance
Game
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Wed, 01/23/2013 - 22:37
Define creases. I'd suggest use TopExplorer to iterate through the edges of your model, find its incident faces ( TopExplorer also handles that ) and than you can compare the angle between the faces.
Wed, 01/23/2013 - 23:27
Dear Jelle!
The creases is line or ridge produced by two surfaces having c0 continuty.
It is good comment, as you said to explore through face to edge and to find normal to edge and then to find the angle between them. And decide up on the angle.
But i have two questions!
1. How i could know neighbor faces in the model?
2. How to determine normal at edge
Both in openCascade environment! That is my difficulty!
Do you have any comment, and or have any sample code!
Regards
Game
Thu, 01/24/2013 - 03:17
The important classes to look into are:
1) TopExplorer ( topology traversal )
2) GeomLProp_SLProps ( get the u,v vectors, curvature, and the normal )
3) Use BRep_Tool_Surface to get the underlying surface from your TopoDS_Face ( this is the argument for GeomLProp_SLProps )
That's about it really, I think it makes for an interesting and fun 1st dive into the warm bath that is OCC
-jelle