Polysurfaces

Rhino Developer
1

Hello, I would like to know if there is a way to select a polysurface and treat this as a surface using c++, I am using Rhino 5 by the way. I mean, for example if I had a polysurface and I want to get the area and centroid, how could I write a line of code to do this or which type of ON_geometry would it be.
For example for getting a surface I type these lines of code

CRhinoGetObject go;

go.SetCommandPrompt( L"Select surface" );
go.SetGeometryFilter( CRhinoGetObject::surface_object );
go.GetObjects( 1, 1 );
if( go.CommandResult() != success )
	return go.CommandResult();
// Validate selection
const CRhinoObjRef& refSurf = go.Object(0);
const CRhinoObject* objSurf = refSurf.Object();
const ON_Surface* srf = refSurf.Surface();
if( !srf )
	return failure;

but it doesnt work for polysurfaces, would there be a way to select a polysurface?

Thank you

2

Hi @f.leon.marquez95,

If you want to select polysurfaces, then use the CRhinoGetObject::polysrf_object. For example:

CRhinoGetObject go;
go.SetGeometryFilter(CRhinoGetObject::polysrf_object);

If you want to select both surface and polysurfaces then include the CRhinoGetObject::surface_object filter:

CRhinoGetObject go;
go.SetGeometryFilter(CRhinoGetObject::surface_object | CRhinoGetObject::polysrf_object);

Another example:

CRhinoGetObject go;
go.SetCommandPrompt(L"Select polysurface");
go.SetGeometryFilter(CRhinoGetObject::polysrf_object);
go.GetObjects(1, 1);
if (go.CommandResult() != success)
  return go.CommandResult();

const CRhinoObjRef& objref = go.Object(0);
const ON_Brep* brep = objref.Brep();
if (brep)
{
  ON_MassProperties mp;
  if (brep->AreaMassProperties(mp, true, false, false, false))
  {
    // TODO...
  }
}

– Dale