Method MergeCoplanarFaces
- Namespace
- GeometryHelper.Geometry
- Assembly
- GeometryHelper.dll
MergeCoplanarFaces()
Runs the faces that share a plane and an edge together into single faces.
public GeoSolid3 MergeCoplanarFaces()Returns
MergeCoplanarFaces(Tolerance)
Runs the faces that share a plane and an edge together into single faces, within a tolerance.
public GeoSolid3 MergeCoplanarFaces(Tolerance tolerance)Parameters
toleranceToleranceThe tolerance deciding what counts as one plane and one edge.
Returns
- GeoSolid3
The body with each coplanar, adjoining group of faces replaced by one face.
Remarks
This is the other direction from Triangulate(): it turns a triangulated skin back into the flat panels it stands for, which is worth doing to a body read out of a mesh format before anything is measured against its faces one at a time. The openings are simplified with the outer surface, and a body whose faces cannot be reduced below four comes back as it was, since fewer than four flat faces cannot enclose a volume.