Shape CAD

There is the possibility to import surface geometries form CAD file. Currently, STL files format (ASCII or binary) are allowed. The following procedure shows how import surfaces using Tonatiuh:

1. Select a surface node.
2. Select ShapeCAD form the Shape menu or from the Shape taskbar.

Figure 1. Insert CAD surface.

3. When the action to insert this shape is selected by the user, a dialog window is opened to enable the selection of the desired CAD file geometry. Select the file and click Open:

Figure 2. Select a STL CAD file.

4. After the file selection, the new shape will be shown in Tonatiuh main windows.

Figure 3. Tonatiuh main window view after importing a shape from CAD file.

The users have also an alternative way to insert these geometries in Tonatiuh, using the scripting. The following code is an example of scripting to create a cube importing the geometry from STL file:

tonatiuh.New();
tonatiuh.SelectNode( "//SunNode/RootNode" );
tonatiuh.CreateSurfaceNode();
tonatiuh.SelectNode( "//SunNode/RootNode/TShapeKit1" );
var arg = new Array("C:/Cube.stl" );
tonatiuh.CreateShape( "CAD_Shape", 1, arg );

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