Hi
As We can create 3D models in Visual Components 3D View with HelixToolkit.Wpf.MeshBuilder, and create a Geometry3D type geometry. Is there a way to add this Geometry3D to a component ? Or convert Geometry3D to geometry feature IGeometryFeature?
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If you have MeshGeometry3D or other such triangle mesh for your UI-side model, you could fairly easily convert the vertices, triangle indices and normals to make one or more ITriangleSet objects into a IGeometryFeature.
There seems to be a ToMesh() method in the MeshBuilder.
With non-mesh objects you are probably out of luck.
First thanks for your reply, and I tried to build MeshGeometry3D to a ITriangleSet Feature Geometry with codes below, but none geometry show in the component.
There MeshGeometry3D should look like this.
MeshGeometry3D meshGeo = MeshPart.Geometry3D;
var geometryFeature = comp.RootNode.RootFeature.CreateFeature<IGeometryFeature>();
var triangles = geometryFeature.Geometry.CreateGeometrySet(GeometrySetType.TriangleSet) as ITriangleSet;
comp.RootNode.RootFeature.AddChild(geometryFeature, 0);
foreach (var vertex in meshGeo.Positions)
{
var vec = new Vector3(vertex.X, vertex.Y, vertex.Z);
triangles.AddPoint(vec);
}
var listTriangle = new List<int>();
foreach (var inde in meshGeo.TriangleIndices)
listTriangle.Add(inde);
triangles.AddTriangles(listTriangle.ToArray());
//for (int i=0;i<geo.TriangleIndices.Count;i+=3)
//{
// triangles.AddTriangle(geo.TriangleIndices[i], geo.TriangleIndices[i + 1], geo.TriangleIndices[i + 2]);
//}
comp.Rebuild();
Here is the Debug trace:
geometryFeature.Geometry.GeometrySets[0]
Name = ""
BoundBox: {VisualComponents.Revolution.BoundBoxWrapper}
BrepAvailable: false
Container: Name = error CS0103: The name 'Name' does not exist in the current context
CreaseAngle: 45
Feature: Name = "Geometry_1"
HasMaterialInheritance: true
HasNoHits: false
HasTextureCoordinates: false
IsHighlighted: false
IsLayerVisible: true
IsValid: true
IsVisible: true
IsWrapperValid: true
Material: null
Name: ""
Normals: Count = 48
ObjectPointer: 0x0000018392ada7e0
ObjectPrimitiveType: GeometrySet
Original: Name = ""
PointCount: 48
Pointer: 0x0000018392ada7b0
Points: Count = 48
Topology: {VisualComponents.Revolution.SolidTopologyWrapper}
TopologyCurves: Count = 0
TriangleCount: 48
Triangles: Count = 144
Could you please show me how to Convert from Geometry3D to Feature.Geometry ITriangleSet, or what’s wrong up above?
This code works fine for me.
Is the component you are adding the geometry dynamic, or is there some other custom logic that might either remove or hide it? Possibly e.g. material inheritance could make the geometry hidden.
There is also IGeometrySet.Update() but it doesn’t seem to be needed in this case.
public void CreateGeometry()
{
var app = IoC.Get<IApplication>();
ISimComponent comp = app.World.CreateComponent("Test Component");
var p0 = new Point3D(0, 0, 0);
var p1 = new Point3D(0, 0, 1000);
var p2 = new Point3D(0, 1000, 1000);
var builder = new HelixToolkit.Wpf.MeshBuilder();
builder.AddCylinder(p0, p1, diameter: 100, thetaDiv: 10);
builder.AddSphere(p1, 50, thetaDiv: 10, phiDiv: 10);
builder.AddCylinder(p1, p2, diameter: 100, thetaDiv: 10);
MeshGeometry3D mesh = builder.ToMesh();
var geometryFeature = comp.RootNode.RootFeature.CreateFeature<IGeometryFeature>();
var triangleSet = geometryFeature.Geometry.CreateGeometrySet(GeometrySetType.TriangleSet) as ITriangleSet;
comp.RootNode.RootFeature.AddChild(geometryFeature, 0);
var points = mesh.Positions.Select(p => new Vector3(p.X, p.Y, p.Z)).ToArray();
triangleSet.AddPoints(points);
triangleSet.AddTriangles(mesh.TriangleIndices.ToArray());
comp.Rebuild();
}
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Thanks, it’s the mesh points scaled to 1/1000 that made the geometry too small to be found.
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The normal is a property of surface or frame ,it will calculate automatically when TriangleSet is built.
----code -----
triangleAxisZ.AddPoints(mesh.Positions.Select(p => new Vector3(p.X, p.Y, p.Z)).ToArray());
triangleAxisZ.AddTriangles(mesh.TriangleIndices.ToArray());
------debug trace----
triangleAxisZ.Normals
Count = 432
[0]: {0;0;0}
[1]: {-0.471394807100296;0;0.881922245025635}
[2]: {0.161998867988586;0.98298442363739;0.0865903943777084}
[3]: {0.161998867988586;0.98298442363739;0.0865903943777084}
[4]: {-0.471394807100296;0;0.881922245025635}
[5]: {-0.471394807100296;0;0.881922245025635}
[6]: {0.445980191230774;0.701023817062378;-0.556477665901184}
[7]: {0.445980161428452;0.701023817062378;-0.556477665901184}
[8]: {-0.471394807100296;0;0.881922245025635}
[9]: {-0.471445560455322;2.2293714209809E-05;0.881895184516907}
[10]: {0.318571090698242;0.932479083538055;0.170280173420906}
[11]: {0.318608015775681;0.932463049888611;0.17029894888401}
[12]: {-0.471323013305664;-3.15350080200005E-05;0.88196063041687}
[13]: {-0.471379607915878;-2.87530911009526E-05;0.881930410861969}
[14]: {0.558590829372406;0.659363925457001;-0.503205299377441}
[15]: {0.661563336849213;0.606326878070831;-0.441250294446945}
[16]: {-0.471496313810349;4.45868281531148E-05;0.881868004798889}
[17]: {-0.471437573432922;-1.61418138304725E-05;0.881899416446686}
[18]: {0.59419459104538;0.738959431648254;0.317602902650833}
[19]: {0.594176948070526;0.738977611064911;0.317593932151794}
[20]: {-0.471441447734833;3.18389065796509E-05;0.881897330284119}
[21]: {-0.471384167671204;-1.66147256095428E-05;0.881927967071533}
[22]: {0.753448307514191;0.522566318511963;-0.399049073457718}
[23]: {0.832350254058838;0.429788678884506;-0.349963963031769}
[24]: {-0.471378833055496;-7.68753598094918E-05;0.881930828094482}
[25]: {-0.471432447433472;4.52768763352651E-05;0.881902098655701}
[26]: {0.789463520050049;0.445738852024078;0.421976566314697}
[27]: {0.78946328163147;0.445739686489105;0.421976149082184}
[28]: {-0.471373230218887;4.51830288739075E-07;0.881933867931366}
[29]: {-0.471331506967545;4.22938092015102E-06;0.881956160068512}
[30]: {0.891558706760406;0.315193593502045;-0.325232356786728}
[31]: {0.935389161109924;0.195159092545509;-0.294889986515045}
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Hi, there! Really a good discussion. I see we can create a geometry feature based on MeshBuilder or MeshGeometry3D. I am wondering, is there a good way to achieve the opposite process? Namely, how to generate mesh parameters (such as vertex positions and triangles indices) from the 3D geometry in Visual Components? Many thanks!!
Hy,
natively you can by export geometry as step (Professional, Premium).
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