Hi, my work flow is that I create a geometry (as surfaces) in Rhino and then export it as a .gdf file for WAMIT. Each surface in Rhino is saved in a text file that gives a list “patches” (the WAMIT term), one patch for each surface from Rhino.
My question is: Is there any way to know (or control) the order in which the Rhino “Save as” command writes the Rhino surfaces into WAMIT patches?
Background:
WAMIT evalutes the interaction of a geometry in water waves. Typically, WAMIT treats a set of closed surfaces as a volume, and the surface normals should point out of the closed volume.
However, WAMIT also has the functionality to designate a particular surface as a “thin member” which is essentially a two side surface (an infinitesimally thin plate). This designation is done in text file other than the gdf, and it is done by simply giving a list of the indices of the patches from the .gdf file that are the thin members.
So, my problem is that I create a geomtry in Rhino; some of the surfaces enclose a volume, and some of them are thin members. I Save this As a WAMIT .gdf and I get a text file that has all the Bspline information as a list of the surfaces, but in that text file, I now do not know which of those Bsplines are the thin members.
More background:
I actually create the geometries programmatically with a custom C# Rhino plug-in. So if there is anyway to know the order that the surfaces are exported using RhinoCommon, that would be ok too.