This tutorial demonstrates how to slice a surface mesh
with another one using the Cassiopee GUI. The two surfaces
are not necessarily closed surfaces.
Written by Sam Landier.
To get an example to work with:
[Dowload sample file].
First open Block::tkSplit by right-clicking
on the Block menu and choosing tkSplit.
Step 1: joining all the surfaces into one zone
Select the lion head and the plane by shift+ctrl clicking
on them in the graphical window or in the tkTree. Click
on Join in the tkSplit applet.
Step 2: conformize the surface
By conformizing, we mean computing the intersection of the
two surfaces and create triangles in the intersecting region.
To perform that, open Surf::tkFixer2,
and click on conformUnstr. Generally the settings of
tolerance can be set to 0. (automatic computation of tolerance),
but sometimes can be adjusted to a geometrical small distance
in case of failure of the algorithm.
Step 3: separate the components
We will now splitting the resulting surface to avoid non manifold
triangles (that is triangle edges connected to more than two
triangles). Back to Block::tkSplit and click
on splitManifold. You will then get 4 pieces, you can visualize
by shift+right clicking on them.
