Geometry Analysis Make MeshGeom Via API

[Cooper Cook]

Hi everyone,

Running some Geometry Analyses in 3.51.0, I am particularly interested in the "External" intersection analysis. With it, I can intersect two geometries and see the mesh formed by the intersection alone, and in the GUI I can click "Make MeshGeom," which appears to generate a new geometry with a geom_id.

In the API, however, I am struggling to find the mapping for this functionality. The GUI requires the Geometry Analysis to have completed before it can make the MeshGeom, so I would guess it's a separate function from ExecAnalysis. Has anyone figured out how to have it return the geom_id from the result of this analysis?

Best regards,

Cooper

[Rob McDonald]

Right now, the 'Make Mesh Geom' capability is not exposed to the API -- it only available from the GUI.

Please add an Issue Report to the GitHub page to remind me to add it soon.

If you are set up to compile OpenVSP, then this change would be relatively straightforward.  I could give you some tips on where to start and how to go about it.

For External geometry analysis, OpenVSP first performs the equivalent to CompGeom on each component -- if they don't overlap, then you could just run CompGeom and export the results.

If you're specifically interested in the intersection volume, that won't work.

Rob

[Cooper Cook]

Hi Rob,

Thank you for the confirmation. I've reported it as an issue. I'd be happy to compile it myself if I were on a personal computer, but I don't have permissions on my current computer. I'll make a placeholder until the update releases.

Thanks again,

Cooper