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Make hemisphere from cicular face.

Modeling Data and AlgorithmsTue, 01/16/2018 - 11:002 replies

QuestionAuthorTue, 01/16/2018 - 11:00

I have a circular face from which I want to add a bottle cap like hemisphere.

I have the radius of the circular face but not its center point. I've used the following code but the hemisphere doesn't completely fit.

    TopoDS_Face circularFace...;  

    double ToolRadius = 10;
    gp_Dir normal(0,1,0);

    GProp_GProps props;
    BRepGProp::LinearProperties(circularFace, props);
    gp_Pnt centerMass = props.CentreOfMass();//get the center of mass
    gp_Ax2 Ax2(centerMass, normal);
    TopoDS_Face S2 = BRepPrimAPI_MakeSphere(Ax2, ToolRadius, PI);

I've attached an image of the shapes. How can I make the bottle cap completely fit?

Thank you.

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01Commenter-1Wed, 01/17/2018 - 08:18

If you know circularFace is "circular", extract its outer edge which should be of type GeomAbs_Arc. from that u could get its center as well as radius and

compute the necessary inputs for the MakeShere API.

regards

02AuthorThu, 01/18/2018 - 09:00

Thanks PG. That solution worked.

Here's the code I used.

    TopoDS_Edge tnpEdge;
   for(TopExp_Explorer explrV(circularFace, TopAbs_EDGE); explrV.More(); explrV.Next()){
       tnpEdge = TopoDS::Edge(explrV.Current());
   }

   Standard_Real first,last;
   gp_Pnt pntFst, pntLst,pntMdl;
   Handle(Geom_Curve) Projected_Curve = BRep_Tool::Curve(tnpEdge,first,last);
   Projected_Curve->D0(first,pntFst);
   Projected_Curve->D0((first+last)/2,pntLst);
   Projected_Curve->D0((first+ (last-first)/4),pntMdl);
   gce_MakeCirc mkCirc(pntFst, pntLst, pntMdl);
   gp_Circ circ = mkCirc.Value();

double rad = circ.Radius();
gp_Pnt mid = circ.Location();

gp_Ax2 Ax(mid, norm);
TopoDS_Face S2 = BRepPrimAPI_MakeSphere(Ax, rad, PI);