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Question regarding Dimensions

Other usage issuesTue, 09/09/2003 - 12:067 replies

QuestionAuthorTue, 09/09/2003 - 12:06

I am still struggling with OpenCascade. Today I have got a question regarding the regeneration of a Dimension.

Imagine the following:

I have got a TopoDS Shape and a related AIS_Shape.

Then I generate an AIS_LengthDimension from one face to another one. Everything is displayed correctly. So far so good ...

Now I apply a translation to the TopoDS_Shape and I call AIS_Shape.Set(TopoDS_Shape) and AIS_Shape->Redisplay(). The shape is now displayed at its new position.

But how do I reposition the Dimension ?

I had a look at the sources and everything I see is, that the Compute methods do the computation, but the documentation says, that the user shall not call this methods directly. How can I do this ?

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01AuthorTue, 09/09/2003 - 13:10

I think I found the problem - but this does not help at all:

The problem is, that the referenced faces returned by AIS_LengthDimension.FirstShape() and AIS_LengthDimension.SecondShape() do not share the same location as the original faces in the TopoDS_Shape - in fact I do not know if they share the faces at all (the documentation says, that copying a TopoDS_Shape does not duplicate its shape data but generates a new location).

The question os now: How can I share the Location of two shapes ?

Has anybody played around with dimensions and has applied transformation to the underlying shapes ?

Kind regards

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02Commenter-1Tue, 09/09/2003 - 16:03

Hello,
I think you will have to do a SetFirstShape and a SetSecondShape on your dimension with the translated shape.

03AuthorTue, 09/09/2003 - 16:29

Thats true, but how to I get the translated shape ? As I said in my response to this topic: The stored shape does not reference to performed translation but shares only the underlying shape.

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04Commenter-1Tue, 09/09/2003 - 17:09

Use the shape you transform and assign to your AIS_Shape.

05AuthorTue, 09/09/2003 - 17:15

Thats excactly what I do - but this does not change the position of my AIS_LengthDimension since this references two faces with the original location !

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06Commenter-1Tue, 09/09/2003 - 17:32

Maybe were are not talking about the same thing?
I'm talking of something like this:

// transform your shape
gp_Trsf yourTransform;
BRepBuilderAPI_Transform trsf(yourTransform);
trsf.Perform(shape1);
TopoDS_Shape trsfShape1=trsf.Shape();
trsf.Perform(shape2);
TopoDS_Shape trsfShape2=trsf.Shape();

// reassign the shape
aisShape1->Set(trsfShape1);
aisShape1->Set(trsfShape1);
aisLength->SetFirstShape(trsfShape1);
aisLength->SetSecondShape(trsfShape2);

aisContext->Redisplay(aisShape1,Standard_False,Standard_True);
aisContext->Redisplay(aisShape2,Standard_False,Standard_True);
aisContext->Redisplay(aisLength,Standard_False,Standard_True);
aisContext->UpdateCurrentViewer();

So the shapes in the AIS_Shape and in the AIS_LengthDimension have to be the same...

07AuthorTue, 09/09/2003 - 20:03

Ok, I have checked your code and it works. Thanks for that.

Unfortunately it doesn't help a lot, since a get the two shapes from the AIS_InterActiveContext::SelectedShape() which returns a TopoDS_Shape and not a TopoDS_Shape &
, so I haven't got the original shapes ! Additionally the shapes are loaded from an Iges file, so I haven't got them in memory directly (as in the example above).

So the basic question is: How can I get a reference to the original shapes from an interactive selection ?

Any suggestions ?

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