Cracks in tesselation

Hi Eric,
If you put your faces in a shell, you won't have this problem and everything will be nicely shaded. Of course, your face must be connectable in a shell.

Commenter-1.

thanks, i'll try this...

Hi Francois,

Which tool should be used for creation of shell from faces?
Can you show code which demonstrates how is it possible to collect faces?

Thank you very much.

Hi Vasiliy,
I'm using BRepTools_Sewing, then I took the result and try to upgrade it using ShapeUpgrade_ShellSewing, then I took the result and try to fix problems using ShapeFix_Shape.

Good Luck,
Commenter-1.

Use BRepOffsetAPI_Sewing (or directly BRepAlgo_Sewing) instead of BRepTools_Sewing.

I tried this:

reader.TransferRoot();
Standard_Integer num = reader.NbShapes(); // Number of shapes in scene

// For each shape
for (int i = 1; i <= num; i++)
{
// Get i-th shape
TopoDS_Shape shape = reader.Shape(i);

// Get all the faces of the shape and create sewed shape
BRepOffsetAPI_Sewing sewing(precision, FALSE);

// Create explorer to browse shape
TopExp_Explorer ex;
// For each face
for (ex.Init(shape, TopAbs_FACE); ex.More(); ex.Next())
{
sewing.Add(ex.Current());
}

sewing.Perform();
TopoDS_Shape new_shape = sewing.SewedShape();

BRepMesh::Mesh(new_shape, precision);

// For each face
for (ex.Init(new_shape, TopAbs_FACE); ex.More(); ex.Next())
{
// Get face
TopoDS_Face face = TopoDS::Face(ex.Current());
TopLoc_Location loc;
// Get triagulation of the face
Handle(Poly_Triangulation) facing = BRep_Tool::Triangulation(face, loc);

// Handlimg of triangulation
//
}
}

But it doesn't solve the problem: if precision is small, no changes in geometry. But if precision is large - shape is seriously damaged.
Maybe I used wrong approach for mesh creation?