X-Git-Url: http://git.salome-platform.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fsalome%2Fgui%2FGEOM%2Finput%2Fpartition_explanation.doc;h=2725784af305eef0df6037f4468289bc864bebcb;hb=00621ab4f35ece96476fc358acf598d78ec0a95d;hp=ad6c24c5baa5a841519ad34ba7f5d17aadc43620;hpb=5ac53b11a185b389bb7ee2b1f02e5bd6759b5ddc;p=modules%2Fgeom.git diff --git a/doc/salome/gui/GEOM/input/partition_explanation.doc b/doc/salome/gui/GEOM/input/partition_explanation.doc index ad6c24c5b..2725784af 100644 --- a/doc/salome/gui/GEOM/input/partition_explanation.doc +++ b/doc/salome/gui/GEOM/input/partition_explanation.doc @@ -1,27 +1,55 @@ -/*!\page partition_explanation Fuse, Partition and Compound usage +/*! -It is frequently asked about the difference between the above mentioned operations. It's indeed simple. Lets take the example of a cylinder and a box that you want to join together. +\page partition_explanation Fuse, Partition and Compound usage + +\tableofcontents -\section Fuse +It is frequently asked about the difference between the above mentioned operations. It's indeed simple. Lets take the example of a cylinder and a box that you want to join together. -The \b fuse operation will make a single solid from the two given solids : +\section sec1 Fuse +The \b fuse operation will make a single solid from the two given solids. It allows you to build complex models by putting simple shapes together. \image html fuse.png -\section Partition - -The \b partition operation will do basically the same but it will keep a face at the frontier between the two solids (in brown on the picture below). -This face is shared by the two solids, which means that this face is present only one time in the resulting shape and is a sub-shape of the box and a sub-shape of the cylinder. +\section sec2 Partition +The \b partition operation will also connect the two solids but it will keep a face at the frontier (in brown on the picture below). The resulting shape will consist in two connected solids that share +a face at their frontier. It means that this face is present only one time in the resulting shape and is a sub-shape of both the box and the cylinder. -This operation allows you to identify different areas in a shape (e.g. different materials) and to ensure a conformal mesh when meshing it later. Indeed the face at the frontier is meshed only one time. +\n This operation allows you to identify different areas in a shape (e.g. different materials) and to ensure a conformal mesh when meshing it later. Indeed the face at the frontier is meshed only once. \image html partition.png -\section Compound +\section sec3 Compound When you build a \b compound by using the build -> compound operation you just make an object that contains the two separate solids like in a "bag". The two solids remain unconnected. The compound is just a set of shapes, no more. +\n The compound Allows applying operations to a collection of shapes. + \image html compound2.png + +\section sec4 Summary + +In the frame of this example we can summarize the following differences: + +