From cc6f3a695d637fd29140c9b18350a9e3335d3c74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rnc Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:39:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] imporved documentation about partition, fuse and compound usage --- .../gui/GEOM/input/partition_explanation.doc | 48 +++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/salome/gui/GEOM/input/partition_explanation.doc b/doc/salome/gui/GEOM/input/partition_explanation.doc index ecc641051..52ce69dcc 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 -\b Fuse +\tableofcontents -The \b fuse operation will make a single solid from the two given solids : +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. -\image html fuse.png +\section sec1 Fuse -\b Partition +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 -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 allow connecting 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 -\b 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 + + +\note The shapes in the compound can be of different types : edge + shell + vertex ... + +\section sec4 Summary + + + */ \ No newline at end of file -- 2.39.2