STEP BREP UV VERTEX EXTRACTION

[pers...@brettmichaelgreen.com]

In a custom STEP importer, I was able to leverage UV-NURB-coordinates(let's call them ST here forward) on a surface while tessellating to map UV texture coordinates for an exported result. I would like to use OCE to do a similar thing, as the mesh quality and STEP support is much better than my custom solution. I have researched for a way to do this in OpenCascade and have mostly seen visualization results where the texture was assigned either by map (as I understand gaining this from a post-processor like blender) or clipPlane fitting. To be specific I have seen the documentation for AIS_Shape and MeshVS_NodalColorPrsBuilder, which as far as I understand serve only the goal of working with the built-in visualizer and interactive handles. 

This is the entirety of the code I applied that retrieves the mesh triangulation and saves to an .stl, I would like to traverse each shape -> surface -> mesh -> triangle, and retrieve the triangle vertices ST coordinates on the BREP or on the Surface parameters (either is fine). I understand this is not very developed code but from reading online this seems to be not possible. 

  STEPControl_Reader stepReader;

  IFSelect_ReturnStatus stat = stepReader.ReadFile("file.stp");

  Standard_Integer NbRoots = stepReader.NbRootsForTransfer();

  Standard_Integer NbTrans = stepReader.TransferRoots();

  TopoDS_Shape Original_Solid = stepReader.OneShape();

  for (TopExp_Explorer exp(Original_Solid, TopAbs_FACE); exp.More(); exp.Next())

  {

    TopoDS_Face face = TopoDS::Face(exp.Current());

    BRepMesh_IncrementalMesh(face, .05);

  }

  StlAPI_Writer stlWriter = StlAPI_Writer();

  stlWriter.ASCIIMode() = Standard_False;

  StlAPI_ErrorStatus outStat = stlWriter.Write(Original_Solid, "out.stl");

[pers...@brettmichaelgreen.com]

I would like to update this posting with some updates.  I am now capable of traversing the mesh and I do see that UV for vertices has been saved out. I do not yet know in respect to what surface but this is a lead that I can follow. 

for (TopExp_Explorer exp(Original_Solid, TopAbs_FACE); exp.More(); exp.Next())

  {

    TopoDS_Face face = TopoDS::Face(exp.Current());

    BRepMesh_IncrementalMesh faceMesh(face, .05);

    TopLoc_Location loc;

    Handle(Poly_Triangulation) tri = BRep_Tool::Triangulation(face, loc);

    if (tri)

    {

      // get the nodes

      if (tri->HasUVNodes())

      {

        const Poly_Array1OfTriangle &tris = tri->Triangles();

        const TColgp_Array1OfPnt &triPos = tri->Nodes();

        const TColgp_Array1OfPnt2d &triUV = tri->UVNodes();

        for (Standard_Integer iCount = tris.Lower(); iCount < tris.Length(); ++iCount)

        {

          // get the node indexes for this triangle

          const Poly_Triangle& tri = tris(iCount);

          Standard_Integer indexPos0 = tri(1);

          Standard_Integer indexPos1 = tri(2);

          Standard_Integer indexPos2 = tri(3);

          gp_Pnt v0 = triPos(indexPos0);

          gp_Pnt2d uv0 = triUV(indexPos0);

          gp_Pnt v1 = triPos(indexPos1);

          gp_Pnt2d uv1 = triUV(indexPos1);

          gp_Pnt v2 = triPos(indexPos2);

          gp_Pnt2d uv2 = triUV(indexPos2);

        }

      }

    }

  }

I also found in the OCCT email list a function for point inversion that could be helpful as well

gp_Pnt2d FaceParameters(const TopoDS_Face &face,const gp_Pnt &pt)
{
// get face as surface
const Handle(Geom_Surface) &surface = BRep_Tool::Surface(face);
// create shape analysis object
ShapeAnalysis_Surface sas(surface);
// get UV of point on surface
gp_Pnt2d uv = sas.ValueOfUV(pt, 0.01);
// return parameters of point on face
return uv;
}

[thomas krijnen]

You can reuse the code in the 2nd snippet to obtain surface from the face:

BRep_Tool::Surface()

https://www.opencascade.com/doc/occt-6.9.1/refman/html/class_b_rep___tool.html#a351a0fe4cd421318c7f2ac042269c0ff

Hope that helps,

Kind regards,
Thomas

IfcOpenShell

Op donderdag 2 november 2017 19:29:12 UTC+1 schreef pers...@brettmichaelgreen.com: