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Other usage issuesMon, 03/15/2010 - 16:394 replies

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Hi all,

I would like to know, if there's a way to tessellate only a SURFACE, instead of a FACE. I mean, I want two different tessellations, one for the surface, and one for the face (e.g.: faces that contains holes will have different tessellation from its surface, since surface do not contain holes)

Thank you in Advance
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01Author

is it not possible?!

02Commenter-1

You could use BRepTools::OuterWire to get the bounding wire of your face with holes, then create a new (holeless) face from this and tesselate that.

03Author

Thank you Commenter-1!

But how about SURFACE is infinite?! Would this solution work?

Regards,

04Commenter-1

I do not know if faces can be infinite - however, you will need to clip the surface somewhere in order to get a finite, tesselatable object.

As a workaround, try to build a rectangular wire on the surface which is really far out, like 100m across and wide or so.