Thu, 07/29/2010 - 00:12
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Hi,
I create some curves manually and then EDGES from these curves (attached image). As you can see there's no way to create a plane using them. So, my question is, how can I build a FACE from those curves?
I know all curves should have PCurves. But, in order to create PCurves it's necessary to have at least the Surface. I tried to create some Surface using GeomFill_Generator, but with no success.
Could someone help?
Thank you in Advance
Regards
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Thu, 07/29/2010 - 10:19
You need one intermidiate step: Wires.
Once you have added your four curves to a Wire, it should be possible to create the face from this with BRepBuilderAPI_MakeFace.
To connect your edges to a wire, add them manually (compare bottle turorial)
BRepBuilerAPI_MakeWire wireMaker();
for(i = 0; i< nEdges; i++)
{
wireMaker.Add(myEdges[i]);
}
TopoDS_Wire myWire = wireMaker.Wire();
This wire can now be used as a parameter to BrepBuilderAPI_MakeFace and should be resulting in your face being generated.
Thu, 07/29/2010 - 11:03
BrepBuilderAPI_MakeFace only deals with planar wires, if the wire is not planar (like in his example) BrepBuilderAPI_MakeFace also needs a surface.
Thu, 07/29/2010 - 14:18
This is untrue. From there is a special function parameter to limit Makeface to planes:
Quote from documentation:
Standard_EXPORT BRepBuilderAPI_MakeFace (const TopoDS_Wire &W, const Standard_Boolean OnlyPlane=Standard_False)
Find a surface from the wire and make a face.
if is true, the computed surface will be
a plane. If it is not possible to find a plane, the
flag NotDone will be set.
.
Thu, 07/29/2010 - 17:26
I always get the error BRepBuilderAPI_NotPlanar, no matter if I pass Standard_True or Standard_False
Thu, 07/29/2010 - 17:33
Oh, sorry.
I haven't tried it, just quoted from the manual.
Seems to be that the Documentation is incorrect or incomplete.
No offense intended.
Thu, 07/29/2010 - 11:01
Did you already try BRepFilling? have a look at my sample code in http://www.opencascade.org/org/forum/thread_18933/
Thu, 07/29/2010 - 16:10
Hi Göran Barz,
I've already tried. But with no success. Maybe I used in a wrong way.
Do you have success using this class?
Thank you in Advance
Regards,
Thu, 07/29/2010 - 17:24
It works in simple cases for me, but if you have too many edges or too complex structures, an Exception (e. g. out of memory) is thrown
Thu, 07/29/2010 - 19:39
I have the same problem. Did anybody try to create a surface using EDGEs(or Curves)?
Thu, 07/29/2010 - 20:00
http://opencascade.blogspot.com/2010/03/surface-modeling-part6.html
Check the code in the example 'Plate' (on Windows) for the Hole filling scenario. It should guide what it takes to build an entire face. Also you might want to check the BRepTest_FillingCommands.cxx for other examples.
I remember the Plate algorithm had issues with cases of semi-cylinder-like surfaces (which seems to be your case on the screenshot). It created some too curved surface (not like soap-bubble). You might want to experiment with parameters fed into the Plate algorithm.
Hope this helps.
Roman
Thu, 07/29/2010 - 21:21
Thank you VERY much Roman!
It work, finally! I used GeomPlate_BuildPlateSurface, and added the Curves from my EDGES. It worked as I expected! ;-)
Fri, 12/09/2016 - 20:40
Hi. I also interested how to create surface from edge. But I'm new in opencascade , can you give some example how to create surfece from edge?
Mon, 12/12/2016 - 23:05
Hi. Can you explain or show how you get from edges Adaptor3d_HCurveOnSurface?
Mon, 12/04/2017 - 13:11
Dear Sir,
can you tell me how to make a surface from non-planar wire using GeomPlate_BuildPlateSurface?
Fri, 12/07/2018 - 07:03
Hello, everyone!
To make Face from edges (see pic. on the first message), one should do the following.
1) Make infinite surface from arc edge (you can use BRepPrimAPI_MakePrism(arcEdge, Direction)
2) Calculate PCurves for each edge, using the function called PutPCurve( const TopoDS_Edge& e, const TopoDS_Face& f). It could be found in LocOpe_WiresOnShape.cxx. (see attached file)
3) Make a wire from edges (BRepBuilerAPI_MakeWire)
4) Make face, using infinite surface and wire (BRepBuilderAPI_MakeFace)