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Build Faces from a not planar wire ?

Other usage issuesThu, 09/27/2001 - 10:161 reply

QuestionAuthorThu, 09/27/2001 - 10:16

I want to create face from wire but my wire is not planar as said the BRepBuilderAPI_MakeFace.

Then how triangulate my wire to to obtain a listof face ? I didn't find the function which triangultae a wire. I only found the function which triangulate a Face.

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01Commenter-1Thu, 09/27/2001 - 11:11

I am not sure to quite understand your problem. A wire is (in Open CasCade) just a set of connected edges which are supported by curves. So I don't think you want to "triangulate" curves.

When you provide a planar wire to BRepBuilderAPI_MakeFace, it can deduce easily a plane which can then be used to build the face. SO in this case you don't need to provide a surface to BRepBuilderAPI_MakeFace. In case of a non-planar wire it is not obvious to deduce the supporting surface. So in this case you have to provide a surface ( a bezier, bspline,cylinder, sphere, etc) to BRepBuilderAPI_MakeFace.