RhinoCommon transformation failure

Scripting
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Hi there,

The test script below is part of a bigger project. I am trying to rotate a group of objects relative to the world Top view, then shear them over -45° relative to the Right view - using Python/RhinoCommon (WIP).

If you run the script with the first file - “StraightPosts”, it works fine The file is exclusively boxes. If you run it on the second file “StraightPosts2” - which are the same boxes but have some round rods that run through them so they have holes, it fails - on the shear step.

Does anyone know why the shear transformation fails in this case?

Thanks,
–Mitch

RotateShearTest.py (1.9 KB)
StraightPosts.3dm (884.0 KB)
StraightPosts2.3dm (6.4 MB)

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I would narrow it down by testing where in the code the Breps looses their Guids. They’re all “0000-0000…0000” at line 51 when processing StraightPosts2, but not on StraightPosts :

50    for obj in objs:
51        objID=sc.doc.Objects.AddBrep(obj)         <-- "empty" guids.

Edit: The objects seems to lose their guids at row 62 (I’ve added some lines for testing) :

58    TestGuidsOK("#2", objs)
59    
60    #Do shear
61    rs.Prompt("Calculating projection...")
62    xform=Rhino.Geometry.Transform.Shear(xy_plane,x_scale,y_scale,z_scale)
63    [obj.Transform(xform) for obj in objs]

65    TestGuidsOK("#3", objs)

RotateShearTest_test.py (2.4 KB)

// Rolf

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Yes, that’s correct, the GUIDS end up as System.Guid.Empty - which usually means that the “virtual” geometrical objects in question were invalid and thus not added to the document.

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My question is not where they are failing, but why… My feeling is that this particular transformation is valid for linear objects, but not for curved ones, but I want to understand why - and also how to fix it if possible…

–Mitch

4

Yes of course. Can’t help you there though.

// Rolf

5

Anyone with any clues…? Haven’t had time to get back to this lately, but still would like to know why this fails and how to fix…

Thx, --Mitch

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This is a brep version of this problem with curves:

except RhinoCommon doesn’t allow invalid breps to be added to the document.

Before each Transform, add:

    if xform.SimilarityType == Rhino.Geometry.TransformSimilarityType.NotSimilarity:
        [obj.MakeDeformable() for obj in objs]
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Ahh, very nice @spb , thank you! I wouldn’t have found that one…

Now I can continue with my project - once I get some more time here.

Cheers, --Mitch