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SAP2000_Toolkit: Ability to handle Solid Objects #132

Open jeanlucjackson opened 4 years ago

jeanlucjackson commented 4 years ago

Description:

Currently no way to pull a Solid Object from SAP.

It can rely on Geometry_oM/Solid and have an IMaterial property

JosefTaylor commented 3 years ago

Currently we don't have a 3D mesh element in the Structure_oM (see issue 1212 in BHoM), and Geometry_oM.Solid isn't a 1:1 map. The best in that namespace would be the BoundaryRepresentation, as long as there are exactly 6 surfaces and all are planar. This could be useful for getting some limited geometries into SAP, but is not great in terms of consistency. I'm not sure how SAP's meshing works for solid objects that are not hexahedral- have you imported any complex shapes via DXF, @jeanlucjackson ?