[Smtk-developers] Loading in STP Models
Robert Michael O'Bara
bob.obara at kitware.com
Mon Dec 22 21:08:33 EST 2014
Hi All,
I think I can show we are no getting the correct topology - Load in Engine-block.igs and you can see we are getting a lot of volumetric bodies which are not volumes (they could be sheet bodies but they definitely not volumetric - this is one of the “volumes”.
Bob
Robert M. O'Bara, MEng.
Assistant Director of Scientific Computing
Kitware Inc.
28 Corporate Drive
Suite 101
Clifton Park, NY 12065
Phone: (518) 881- 4931
> On Dec 22, 2014, at 8:35 PM, David Thompson <david.thompson at kitware.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Bob,
>
>> I’m assuming that we are only tessellating the faces, edges, and vertices correct?
>
> Correct.
>
>> Not the bodies themselves since that could cause things to get tessellated twice
>
> Right, but CGM provides a method to obtain a tessellation of a body at once. It may be faster.
>
>> - Can we get the total number of entities in the file?
>
> Not without iterating over the topology twice (once to count, once to transcribe/tessellate).
>
> David
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