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rentlau_64
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from set of points to surface?

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Hello,
i am looking to a function (or piece of python) to transform a set of 3d points into a surface (mesh)
The set of points were generated by parametric surface (u,v).

Any python function to do that (or oop function)?

Thank you for any kind of help.

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Re: from set of points to surface?

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Hello.

I remember this thread in the german sub-forum about his subject.

As mentioned in the last post there i remember user microelly2 did a lot of work based on that in his
- reconstruction workbench ... discussion here
- NURBS Editor ... discussion here

Hope this is useful for a start ...

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I think this is a good way to start playing
http://freecadbuch.de/doku.php?id=story ... _mass_data

write your own version to generate the data
example:

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x = np.arange(-5.00, 5.00, 0.5)
y = np.arange(-5.00, 5.00, 0.5)
xx, yy = np.meshgrid(x, y)
z = np.sin(xx**2+yy**2)

setSpreadsheet(ss1,x,y,z)
table2Nurbs(ss1,"waves")
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Roland and microelly2,
thank a lot, i will look carefuly at these information.

Have a good day
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Re: from set of points to surface?

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microelly2,

I have an error message regarding the test :
ns.table2Nurbs(ss1,"simpe gen data")
>>> ns.table2Nurbs(ss1,"simpe gen data")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/laurent/.FreeCAD/Mod/nurbs/nurbswb/spreadsheet_lib.py", line 234, in table2Nurbs
,3,3)
TypeError: PyCXX: Error creating object of type N2Py6VectorE from array([ 0. , 0. , 565.71704008])
The code I typed in the FreeCad python Console:

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import nurbswb.spreadsheet_lib as ns
ss1=ns.createSpreadsheet(label='MySpreadsheet')
ns.gendata(ss1)
ns.table2Nurbs(ss1,"simpe gen data")
I suspect it is my release of Ubuntu...what do you think?
OS: Ubuntu 15.04
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.16.6692 (Git)
Build type: None
Branch: master
Hash: 87293fac9bb85c5f5e0ebf563374e27d565116ae
Python version: 2.7.9
Qt version: 4.8.6
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 6.8.0.oce-0.17
Thank you

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rentlau_64 wrote: TypeError: PyCXX: Error creating object of type N2Py6VectorE from array([ 0. , 0. , 565.71704008])

Version: 0.16.6692 (Git)
There was an improvement to handle numpy arrays in 0.17
Maybe I can make it backward compatible by converting the array to a array of Vectors

starting line 221 insert these lines should help for the first.

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	ps=np.array(ps).reshape(NbVPoles,NbUPoles,3)

#-hack for 0.16
	ps=[]
	for v in range(NbVPoles):
		psl=[]
		for u in range(NbUPoles):
			p=(x[u],y[v],z[v*NbUPoles+u])
			psl.append(FreeCAD.Vector(p))
		ps.append(psl)
#- end hack
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Re: from set of points to surface?

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Microelly2,
Thank you for your help i will test your fix this evening. :D
And will also upgrade my system during Christmas holydays.
Have a nice day.
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Re: from set of points to surface?

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Microelly2,

Thank you it worked perfectly!
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Have a nice evening! :D

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