Wed, 06/02/2004 - 11:37
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Hi everybody!
I want to write my own visualization routines. I meshed my shape via
BRepMesh_IncrementalMesh::BRepMesh_IncrementalMesh () and can access the surface triangulation through BRep_Tool::Triangulation. So i can draw the faces. But in order to draw the edges, i need to access the edge polygonialization. I tried it with BRep_Tool::Polygon3D, but it always returns a NULL handle.
How can I access the polygons describing the edges?
Or do I have to call any function to mesh the edges first (I thought it should be done by IncrementalMesh)?
Thank you,
Robert
Wed, 06/02/2004 - 14:40
I do this by first getting the triangulation on one of the faces attached to the edge using BRep_Tool::Triangulation. Then, I get the triangulation on the edge using BRep_Tool::PolygonOnTriangulation. You can create a map of edges to faces containing those edges using TopExp::MapShapesAndAncestors.
Wed, 06/02/2004 - 14:47
thank you for your answer. i have tried it that way now. finally, it works!