Mon, 10/04/2004 - 19:07
Hi,
I have the following problem: I want to join two TopoDS_Shapes that have a coincide face. For example two cubes with the same side length 1, one of them located in (0,0,0), the other in (0,0,1). What I want is a TopoDS_Shape consisting of 7 faces (the six outer faces of the composed object and the coincide face).
I tried it with BRepAlgoAPI_Fuse which returned a shape with 10 faces, with BRepFeat_Gluer I got 6 faces and with BRepAlgo_Sewing and TopoDS_Compound 12 faces (the coincide face exists two times in the new object).
Does anyone know how to join shapes in a way that coincide faces exist exactly one time in the joined object?
I know that similar questions have already been asked in this forum, but I couldn't find a sufficient answer.
Thanks in advance
Angelika
Mon, 10/04/2004 - 19:23
I could be wrong, but I don't believe any of the existing CASCADE
algorithms will give what you are looking for. You could try using
the Gluer and creating a compound containing that and the results
of a Common operation. I think you will find that the results of
the Sewing operation have the face twice, but with opposite
orientations.
Good luck!
Wed, 10/06/2004 - 14:57
Thanks a lot for your help.
I had no success with the Common operation but it worked fine with the Section operator.
The only problem is that the resulting shape can not be converted into a solid. (Maybe, because it is invalid due to the internal face).
But for my purposes a shell is sufficient.
Best regards
Angelika
Tue, 10/05/2004 - 03:05
Dear Angelika,
As far as I know, there is no algorithm to produce such a result and probably there will not be in OpenCascade, for such an object has invalid topology. According to your description, the coinside face will not have any connection with the outter faces, and it is topologically isolated from the other faces, and it should have the orientation TopAbs_INTERNAL. In fact, this case can exist, but normally OCC algorithms will not make such an object, and will not properly deal with it.
I hope this will help you.
best regards,
Sangsu Lee
Tue, 03/08/2022 - 17:18
Hi everyone
With regards to the problem above, does anyone know how to get where @leibscher got?
I mean how to fuse two cubes with a coincide face to one single solid with 6 faces?
(what I mean is for the coincide face to disappear)
Sun, 06/26/2022 - 17:51
Hi Panos,
As far as I can understand the problem :
- If you want to fuse the 2 touching cubes into one solid with 6 faces => BRepAlgoAPI_Fuse.
- If you want to preserve the 2 cubes, but have the touching face being shared between them => BOPAlgo_Builder.
Tue, 06/28/2022 - 05:18
Hi leibscher,
I think what you want to build is not a body. All topologies of body must be connected, but internal face has no connections with other topologies, so what you want is not body, just a compound of a solid and a face. How to build it? First, get the glue face; Second, fuse two cubes to a solid; Final make compound of solid and face.