Surface Filling

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Menu location
Surface Filling
Surface → Filling...
Workbenches
Surface
Default shortcut
None
Introduced in version
-
See also
None

Descriere

Surface Filling creates a surface from a series of connected boundary edges.

The surface can be modified by adding constraint edges and vertices which the surface must pass through.

Example of a filled surface, delimited by four edges located in the XY plane; (left) only the four edges, and (right) one additional curve in space that defines the curvature of the surface

Cum se folosește

apăsați butonul Surface filling... button.
Detalierea pașilor este necesară.
Definiți opțiunile și apăsați OK.

The base edges that form the closed contour, as well as the auxiliary vertices and edges, can belong to 2D curves from Draft or the Sketcher, but can also belong to 3D solid objects such as those created with the Part or PartDesign Workbenches.

Opţiuni

Boundary section:
- Add edge: press once to start picking Boundary edges in the 3D view. Straight edges such as Draft Wires and Sketcher Polylines, or curved edges such as Draft BSplines and Sketcher BSplines can be chosen, as well as any edge from solid objects, like those of PartDesign Bodies and Part Primitives.
- Remove edge: press once to start picking edges in the 3D view; these edges must have been previously picked with Add edge.
- Right mouse button: open the context menu and select Remove, or press Del in the keyboard, to remove the currently selected edge in the list.

Curvature: non-boundary edges section; the Add edge button is available to pick auxiliary edges (straight lines or B-Splines) to control the curvature of the surface. The surface will be forced to pass through these auxiliary edges. This works best when the auxiliary edges lie inside the region delimited by the Boundary edges.
Curvature: non-boundary vertices section; similar to the non-boundary edges, the user can pick auxiliary vertices to control the curvature. These vertices may be free standing Draft Points or Part Points, or may belong to any edge (straight lines or B-Splines), or be a corner vertex in a solid object. In this case, the surface will be constrained to pass through these auxiliary points.
Press Cancel or Esc to abort the current operation.

Proprietăți

A Surface Filling (Surface::Filling class) is derived from the basic Part Feature (Part::Feature class, through the Part::Spline subclass), therefore it shares all the latter's properties.

In addition to the properties described in Part Feature, the Surface Filling has the following properties in the property editor.

Data

Filling

DateProperty: descrierea proprietăților
VizualizareProperty: descrierea proprietăților

View

Base

VizualizareControl Points (Bool): it defaults to false; if set to true, it will show an overlay with the control points of the surface.

Limitations

The surface code from the internal OpenCASCADE modelling kernel is fragile, and cannot handle wrong input properly. The following situations may cause problems, and may crash the program, so they should be avoided:

Adding DateBoundary Edges to that would result in several closed faces. In this case, those edges should be added as DateUnbound Edges to control the curvature only.
Using parametric DateBoundary Edges (for example, Draft BSplines) that when recomputed fail to produce a closed boundary. That is, the edges to be used as DateBoundary Edges must always form a closed shape, even if their internal properties change.

Scripting

See also: FreeCAD Scripting Basics.

The Surface Filling tool can be used in macros and from the Python console by adding the Surface::Filling object.

The edges to be used to define the surface must be assigned as a LinkSubList to the BoundaryEdges property of the object.
Auxiliary edges and vertices must be assigned as a LinkSubLists to the UnboundEdges and Points properties of the object.
All objects with edges need to be computed before they can be used as input for the properties of the Filling object.

import FreeCAD as App
import Draft

doc = App.newDocument()

a = App.Vector(-20, -20, 0)
b = App.Vector(-18, 25, 0)
c = App.Vector(60, 26, 0)
d = App.Vector(33, -20, 0)

points1 = [a, App.Vector(-20, -8, 0), App.Vector(-17, 7, 0), b]
obj1 = Draft.make_bspline(points1)

points2 = [b, App.Vector(0, 25, 0), c]
obj2 = Draft.make_bspline(points2)

points3 = [c, App.Vector(37, 4, 0), d]
obj3 = Draft.make_bspline(points3)

points4 = [d, App.Vector(-2, -18, 0), a]
obj4 = Draft.make_bspline(points4)
doc.recompute()

surf = doc.addObject("Surface::Filling", "Surface")
surf.BoundaryEdges = [(obj1, "Edge1"),
                      (obj2, "Edge1"),
                      (obj3, "Edge1"),
                      (obj4, "Edge1")]
doc.recompute()

# ---------------------------------------------------------
points_spl = [App.Vector(-10, 0, 2),
              App.Vector(4, 0, 7),
              App.Vector(18, 0, -5),
              App.Vector(25, 0, 0),
              App.Vector(30, 0, 0)]
aux_edge = Draft.make_bspline(points_spl)
doc.recompute()

surf.UnboundEdges = [(aux_edge, "Edge1")]
doc.recompute()

# ---------------------------------------------------------
aux_v1 = Draft.make_line(App.Vector(-13, -12, 5),
                         App.Vector(-13, -12, -5))
aux_v2 = Draft.make_line(App.Vector(-3, 18, 5),
                         App.Vector(-3, 18, -5))
doc.recompute()

surf.Points = [(aux_v1, "Vertex2"),
               (aux_v2, "Vertex1")]
doc.recompute()