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Airframe Finite Element Modeler
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How to write Step from Surf ? #2

Closed selvakarna closed 5 years ago

selvakarna commented 5 years ago

How to write Step from Mesh ?

trelau commented 5 years ago

I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to achieve? If you have a mesh, the only way to write a STEP file might be to convert each triangle into a Face and then export as a shape, but I doubt that's what you really want? Can you be more specific?

selvakarna commented 5 years ago

Hi @trelau ,

Yes, I want to write a STEP file from MESH details using Python Scripts . so how to

Write STEP file ?

  1. what are the details needed to write STEP file using Python?
trelau commented 5 years ago

This example https://github.com/LaughlinResearch/AFEM/blob/master/examples/exchange_step_write.py will show you the most basic example of writing a STEP file via the AFEM interface.

The biggest challenge in your case might be converting the mesh to an OCCT shape representation. Once you have a shape, writing that shape to a STEP file is straightforward.

selvakarna commented 5 years ago

Hi @trelau , How to export SUrf to step ?

trelau commented 5 years ago

Once you have a Face (which is derived from a Shape), the same example above shows how export a STEP file.