Points and faces 3-dimensional mesh.

An empty t, with no points.

make ~points ~faces

Create a mesh t from a list of V3.t points, and a list of faces described by indices into points.

Describes desired row wrapping behaviour in of_rows, which creates a mesh from rows of points.

Quadrilateral face triangulation strategy.

prune_rows ?min_dist rows

Filter rows such that each row polygon is at least min_dist (default 0.05) above the plane of the previous polygon, indicating the dropped indices. This can be useful for avoiding self-intersections in the output of of_rows. Note that all polygons in rows must be planar, else Failure will be raised.

of_rows ?rev ?endcaps ?col_wrap ?style rows

Create a t representing a polyhedron from a list of layers (counter_clockwise loops of 3d points). endcaps defaults to `Both, which specifies that faces should be generated to close off the bottom and top layers of the generated shape. If it is instead set to `Loop, the open faces of the first and last layers will be closed with one another. For more advanced usages, one or both of the endcaps can be left open, so the resulting meshes can be closed off by some other means.

• col_wrap sets whether faces should be generated to loop between the ends of each row.
• If rev is true, faces winding direction will be reversed (default = false)

• style governs how the quadrilaterals formed by the rows and columns of points are divided into triangles:

  • `Default is an arbitrary systematic subdivision in the same direction
  • `Alt is the uniform subdivision in the other (alternate direction)
  • `MinEdge picks the shorter edge to subdivide the quadrilateral, so the division may not be uniform across the shape
  • `Quincunx adds a vertex in the middle of each quadrilateral and creates four triangles
  • `Convex and `Concave choose the locally convex/concave subdivision
• If rows is empty, a empty is returned. Throws Invalid_argument if rows contains only one row, or if it is not rectangular (any row differs in length).

of_ragged ?looped ?reverse rows

Create a triangular mesh from a list of rows, where each row can differ in length relative to its neighbours by up to 2. Since the rows can be ragged, no (columnar) wrapping is done, thus they are best described as rows, rather than layers as with of_rows which produces an enclosed polyhedron. Instead, this function is useful for the generation of triangular patches that can be joined with one another to create a complete polyhedron. Setting looped to true will generate faces between the last and first rows, so long as their lengths differ by no more than 2. Face winding order is reversed if reverse is true. Throws Invalid_argument if a row length delta of greater than 2 is encountered.

of_path3 ?rev layer

Create a mesh from a single path (a closed loop of V2.t), returning a t with a single face including all of the points. Face winding order is reversed if rev is true. This can be useful for producing a flat patch mesh to be combined with other meshes to produce a complete shape.

of_path3 ?rev layer

Create a mesh from a single path (a closed loop of V3.t, should be coplanar though it is not confirmed), returning a t with a single face including all of the points. Face winding order is reversed if rev is true. This can be useful for producing a flat patch mesh to be combined with other meshes to produce a complete shape.

of_poly2 ?rev poly

Create a mesh from a 2d polygon. If poly does not have any holes, then this is equivalent to of_path2. If there are holes, polyhole partitioning is performed to determine a set of faces that can close the points.

The earcutting algorithm used to partition the polygon into faces is a port of RonaldoCMP's work found here.

of_poly3 ?rev poly

Create a mesh from a 3d polygon. If poly does not have any holes, then this is equivalent to of_path3. If there are holes, polyhole partitioning is performed to determine a set of faces that can close the points.

The earcutting algorithm used to partition the polygon into faces is a port of RonaldoCMP's work found here.

of_polygons polys

Create a polyhedron mesh from a list of polygonal point faces.

hull points

Create a convex hull mesh that encloses points. If the points are coplanar, a 2-dimensional hull is found, resulting in an unclosed single face mesh (as with of_path3). Unused points are not discarded.

Path resampling vertex mapping strategies.

Each of these variants specify that profiles of incommensurate length should simply resampled with Path3.subdivide with the provided point distribution frequency strategy ([`ByLen | `BySeg]). In the case of `Direct _, the profiles are assumed to be "lined up", with the points at their zeroth indices corresponding to eachother. The `Reindex _ strategy will rotate the second profile of a pair via Path3.reindex_polygon following resampling to minimize the distance between the zeroth indices of the two paths.

Point duplicating vertex mapping strategies.

Each of these variants specify profiles of incommensurate length should be matched up by computing vertex mappings between the profiles, and duplicating vertices on the smaller/shorter profile until the point counts are equalized. See the conspicuously named vertex matching functions Path3.distance_match, Path3.aligned_distance_match, and Path3.tangent_match for more details (also available in the Path2 module).

Vertex count matching strategy specification type.

slice_profiles ?looped ~slices profiles

Linearly transition between each neighbouring pair of closed paths in profiles to produce new interpolated list of profiles. The number of slices inserted between can either be the same between each pair (`Flat n), or specified separately with `Mix ns. If looped is true, then slices will also be inserted between the last and initial profiles (default is false). Lists of profiles such as these can be used to produce meshes with of_rows (as skin does).

Raises Invalid_argument if the length of `Mix ns does not correspond to the number of transitions, or if profiles has fewer than two elements.

skin ?style ?endcaps ?refine ?mapping ~slices profiles

Produce a mesh that skins over two or more 3d profiles -- closed, ideally coplanar (though some slight variation can be ok) paths. This works by linearly interpolating between neighbouring profiles with slices steps, and passing the profiles along to of_rows, which generates faces to enclose the shape. For this to be well defined, each row must have the same length, thus mapping can be used to specify the strategy used to map/associate the vertices between them and reconcile the point counts and improve alignment for their connecting edges (see resampler and duplicator configuration variants). By default this is `Direct, which simply applies resampling without altering the vertex associations established by the start indices of each profile.

• refine can be specified to apply additional upsampling which may help to improve the smoothness of the resulting mesh. Uses Path3.subdivide with the sampling frequency indicated for resampler mapped transitions, and `BySeg for duplicators.
• slices and mapping can be provided as `Flat _ to be applied to all transitions, or as `Mix l, where l is a list with length equal to the number of profile transitions (length profiles - 1, or length profiles if endcaps is `Loop)
• NOTE: mixing mapping strategies can be fickle, and some combinations may not work depending on the profiles. This may improve as kinks are worked out, but maybe not

skin_between ?style ?endcaps ?refine ?mapping ~slices a b

Create a mesh that skins over a linear interpolation/morph between 3d profiles a and b over slices steps. See skin for more details.

Configuration module for declaring how extrusions from 2d to 3d via sweep should be capped off.

sweep ?check_valid ?style ?winding ?merge ?fn ?fs ?fa ?caps ~transforms poly

Sweep a 2d polygon into a 3d mesh by applying a sequence of transforms to the original shape. The winding parameter can be used to set automatic enforcement of polygon winding direction, which will impact the winding of the generated faces of the mesh. What is done with the endcaps can be specified with caps. By default the ends of the extrusion are sealed with flat faces, but they can instead be looped to eachother, left empty, or rounded over. If style is provided, it will be passed along to of_rows, which handles converting the swept shapes into a mesh.

If merge is true (as is default), merge_points is applied to the resulting mesh, as duplicate points are introduced when end caps are joined to the outer and inner meshes. If the duplicate points aren't a problem for you (they aren't necessarily), this can be turned off to save some compute.

check_valid determines whether validity checks are performed during offset operations (see Path2.offset), for cap roundovers (if specified). Additionally, unless check_valid is `No, polygon validation will be performed with final outer and inner paths of the caps before their mesh is generated.

extrude ~height poly

Vertically extrude a 2d polygon from the XY plane to height. If ?center is true, the resulting 3D object is centered around the XY plane, rather than resting on top of it. Roundovers described by caps are taken into account such that the final shape conforms to the specified height. If height is less than the combined height of caps, there will simply be no "mid-section" (and the resulting height will not reflect the height parameter).

• ?twist rotates the shape by the specified angle as it is extruded upwards
• ?slices specifies the number of intermediate points along the Z axis of the extrusion. By default this increases with the value of ?twist, though manual refinement my improve results.
• ?scale expands or contracts the shape in X and Y as it is extruded upward. Default is (v2 1. 1.), no scaling.
• Scaling/twisting proceed linearly by default, though bezier easing can be specified by providing handle points to the scale_ez and twist_ez parameter respectively. (see Path3.scaler and Path3.twister).

revolve ?angle ?skew poly

Revolve a 2d polygon (defined within the X+ half-plane) around the z-axis. An angle between 0 and 2π can be provided to specify an incomplete revolution, by default the result loops back onto itself.

• skew:{x; y} skews the revolved mesh in the xz and yz planes

path_extrude ?check_valid ?style ?merge ?winding ?caps ?euler ?scale_ez ?twist_ez ?scale ?twist ~path poly

Extrude a 2d polygon along the given path into a 3d mesh. This is a convenience function that composes transform generation using Path3.to_transforms with sweep.

helix_extrude ?check_valid ?style ?merge ?fn ?fs ?fa ?scale_ez ?twist_ez ?scale ?twist ?caps ?left ~n_turns ~pitch ?r2 r1 poly

Helical extrusion of a 2d polygon into a 3d mesh. This is a special case of path_extrude, but following a path generated with Path3.helix, and using transforms that take the helical rotation into account.

morphing_sweep ~transforms a b

Morph between the polygons a and b while sweeping the hybrids along transforms to create a mesh. The outer_map, hole_map, and refine correspond to the the similarly named parameters of the more general skin, while the optional ez parameter allows the transition to be bezier eased via Easing.make, rather than strictly linearly. See sweep for details on the remaining common parameters.

morph ~height a b

Vertically morph between the 2d polygons a and b. This function is to morphing_sweep, as extrude is to sweep. See each of the former for details on their common parameters.

path_morph ~path poly

Morph between the 2d polygons a and b along the given path. This is a convenience function that composes transform generation using Path3.to_transforms with morphing_sweep.

helix_morph ~n_turns ~pitch ?r2 r1 a b

Morph between the 2d polygons a and b along a helical path. This is a special case of path_morph, but following a path generated with Path3.helix, and using transforms that take the helical rotation into account.

Rounded prism configuration module.

prism ?debug ?fn ?holes ?outer bottom top

Create a prism with continuous curvature rounding from the given bottom and top polygons. The edges running between the corresponding paths must produce a valid polyhedron with coplanar side faces, thus the top should generally be the same shape as the bottom translated/transformed in such a way as to not violate this assumption (avoid z-rotation for one). Roundover specifications are provided with outer and holes (see Prism.spec and Prism.holes for details).

• debug can be set to true to skip validity checks that would otherwise raise exceptions on failure, so a mesh can still be obtained for inspection.

linear_prism ?debug ?fn ?holes ?outer ?center ~height bottom

Create a prism with continuous curvature rounding by extruding the polygon bottom linearaly upward to the given height. If center is true, the resulting prism will be centred in z around the xy plane. See the more general case prism for more details.

cartesian_plot ~min_x ~x_steps ~max_x ~min_y ~y_steps ~max_y f

Create a mesh of the function f (from x and y to z) over the ranges of x and y defined by the rest of the parameters.

polar_plot ?r_step ~max_r f

Create a mesh of the function f (from radius and angle to z) between the z-axis and the radius max_r, with the minimum radial step r_step.

axial_plot ?fn ~min_z ~z_step ~max_z f

Create a mesh of the function f (from z-height and angle to radius). fn sets the number of angular steps around the z-axis.

join ts

Join a list of meshes. This is not a boolean operation, it is simply collecting the points from each and updating face indices accordingly. Intended for use when building a closed mesh from a set of partial meshes.

merge_points ?eps t

Eliminate duplicate points (less than eps distance apart) from t.

drop_unused_points t

Drop unreferenced points (not included in any face) from the mesh t.

triangulate ?eps t

Triangulate the faces of the mesh t. Some degree of coplanarity in the input faces can be fine, though too much can cause triangulation to fail. If provided, eps is used for duplicate point and collinearity checks.

rev_faces t

Flip all faces of the mesh t.

volume t

Calculate the volume of the mesh t.

area t

Calculate the surface area of the mesh t.

centroid ?eps t

Calculate the centroid of the mesh t.

to_stl ?ascii ?rev ?eps path t

Write the mesh t to disk at path as an stl. Binary serialization is performed by default, but the ascii format is also available.

• eps can be provided to control the precision of point deduplication and face triangulation operations required befor export (default is 1e-6)
• As OCADml meshes (t) are typically generated to follow the CCW inner face convention of OpenSCAD, this can result in normals pointing the opposite direction expected by other programs with which you may want to use the output stl. Thus facets are reversed by default during serialization, however this can be avoided by setting ~rev:false.