Functions

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Contents:	Constructors

api_accurate_bs3_approximation					Recomputes the 3D B-spline surface approximation, using the newer algorithm.
api_body					Creates an empty body.
api_body_mass_pr					Determines the mass properties of a body.
api_body_to_2d					Converts single-sided faces to double-sided faces.
api_build_wire					Creates a wire from an array of positions and an array of pointers to curves.
api_closed_wire					Determines if a wire or a single-wire body is closed.
api_create_point					Creates a point entity at the specified position.
api_create_text					Creates a text entity at given position.
api_curve_arc					Creates a circular arc given the center, radius, and start and end angles.
api_curve_arc_3curve					Creates a circle tangent to three curves.
api_curve_arc_3pt					Creates a circle or circular arc through three positions.
api_curve_arc_center_edge					Creates a circle or circular arc given a center and two edge points.
api_curve_arc_diagonal					Creates a circle or circular arc given two points on the diagonal.
api_curve_bezier					Creates a cubic Bezier curve given four control points.
api_curve_ellipse					Creates an ellipse parallel to the xy-plane of the active working coordinate system.
api_curve_fillet					Creates a fillet between two curves.
api_curve_law					Creates a curve from a law.
api_curve_line					Creates a line through two positions.
api_curve_line_tangent					Creates a line tangent to two curves or through a position and tangent to a curve.
api_curve_spline					Creates a spline curve that interpolates an array of positions.
api_curve_spline2					Creates a spline curve that interpolates an array of positions at specified parameter values.
api_edge					Creates a new edge which is a copy of the specified edge.
api_edge_arclength_metric					Creates a arclength parameterized curve from a curve.
api_edge_arclength_param					Creates a new arcwise edge which is a copy of the specified edge.
api_edge_law					Creates an edge from a law.
api_edge_plaw					Creates an edge from a R2 law and a face.
api_edge_spiral					Creates an edge from a spiral definition.
api_edge_spring					Creates an edge from a spring definition.
api_edge_spring_law					Creates an edge from a spring definition and a radius law.
api_edge_spring_taper					Creates an edge from a tapered spring definition.
api_edge_to_spline					Creates a spline edge using a given edge.
api_ed_inters_to_ents					Creates vertex and edge entities corresponding to a list of edge-edge intersections as produced by api_inter_ed_ed.
api_enclose_void					Modifies an enclosing set of faces from void bounding to material bounding.
api_ent_area					Determines the area of a face, shell, lump, or body.
api_face_conic					Creates a conical face.
api_face_cylinder_cone					Creates a cylindrical or conical face.
api_face_law					Creates a law face.
api_face_plane					Creates a planar face.
api_face_sphere					Creates a spherical face.
api_face_spl_apprx					Creates a spline face which is fit to a grid of positions.
api_face_spl_ctrlpts					Creates a spline face from control points and knots.
api_face_spl_intrp					Creates a spline surface face.
api_face_torus					Creates a toroidal face.
api_fillet_vertex					Fillets a wire at a given vertex.
api_find_face					Determines a planar face with normal in given direction.
api_find_vertex					Gets the vertex closest to given position.
api_initialize_constructors					Initializes the constructor library.
api_loop_external					Determines if a loop is internal or external.
api_make_approx_curve					Creates a curve that approximates a given curve.
api_make_approx_surface					Creates a surface that approximates a given surface.
api_make_cnface					Creates a face that is a portion of a cone.
api_make_cuboid					Creates cuboid of given width, depth and height.
api_make_edge_from_curve					Creates an edge using a copy of the input curve.
api_make_ewire					Creates a body that consists a single wire from a list of edges that are connected in the order given with no branching.
api_make_ewires					Separates and sorts a possibly branched list of edges into a group of non-branched wire bodies.
api_make_frustum					Creates an elliptical cone or cylinder of given height and radii.
api_make_kwire					Creates a kwire body from an array of positions and bulges.
api_make_planar_disk					Creates a face that is a planar disk.
api_make_plface					Creates a face that is a parallelogram specified by three points: origin, left, and right.
api_make_polygon					Creates a polygonal wire from in a plane orthogonal to a given normal.
api_make_prism					Creates an elliptical prism of given height, radii, and number of sides.
api_make_pyramid					Creates an elliptical pyramid of given height, radii, and number of sides.
api_make_spface					Creates a face that is a portion of a sphere.
api_make_sphere					Creates a sphere of given radius.
api_make_spline					Creates a body consisting of a single face which is the whole of a given B-spline surface.
api_make_torus					Creates a torus of given major and minor radii.
api_make_trface					Creates a face that is a portion of a torus.
api_make_wire					Creates a polygonal wire from an array of positions.
api_manifold_class					Determines the differences between all manifold shells, manifold sheets, and wire edges. Returns all nonmanifold edges and vertices.
api_mk_by_faces					Adds each FACE in the array that is attached to a SHELL within a LUMP to a BODY.
api_mk_ed_bs3_curve					Creates an EDGE that represents an intersection curve defined by a 3D NURBS curve.
api_mk_ed_conic					Creates a spline edge defined by a conic.
api_mk_ed_cubic					Creates an EDGE that represents a cubic spline curve interpolating or fitting a sequence of points.
api_mk_ed_ellipse					Creates an EDGE that represents a bounded elliptical arc.
api_mk_ed_int_ctrlpts					Creates an EDGE that represents an intersection curve defined by a sequence of control points and knots.
api_mk_ed_line					Creates an EDGE that represents a bounded line segment between two points.
api_mk_fa_spl_ctrlpts					Creates a FACE representing the spline surface defined by a sequence of control points and knots.
api_mk_fa_spl_fit					Creates a FACE that represents a spline surface defined by a sequence of points on the surface.
api_mk_fa_spl_intp					Creates a FACE that represents a spline surface defined by a sequence of points on a surface.
api_modify_ellipse					Modifies an argument of an ellipse.
api_modify_line					Modifies line end points.
api_planar_face_pr					Locates area, center of area, second moments, and principal axes of a planar face.
api_q_edges_around_vertex					Gets a list of edges that share a given vertex.
api_reverse_body					Reverses the orientations of all coedges in the body. Also reverses face orientations and the orientation of loops within the faces.
api_reverse_face					Reverses the sense of a face.
api_reverse_wire					Reverses the direction (sense) of a wire.
api_sheet_from_ff					Creates a sheet body as a copy of a face.
api_shell_external					Determines whether a shell is internal or external.
api_solid_block					Creates a solid block given two diagonal positions.
api_solid_cylinder_cone					Creates a solid cylinder or cone given two positions on the axis.
api_solid_sphere					Creates a solid sphere given the center and radius.
api_solid_torus					Creates a solid torus given the center and major and minor radii.
api_split_curve					Splits a curve at a position or its intersection with another curve.
api_split_edge_at_disc					Splits a curve at G1 or G2 discontinuities.
api_terminate_constructors					Terminates the constructor library.
api_trans_edge					Creates a new edge which is a transformed copy of the specified edge.
api_trim_2curves					Trims two curves to their intersection.
api_trim_chain					Trims a list of curves so that they form a contiguous chain.
api_trim_curve					Trims one end of a curve at a position or its intersection with another curve.
api_trim_middle					Trims the middle of a curve.
api_wiggle					Creates a "wiggle" body for testing purposes.
api_wire_len					Determines the length of a wire or a wire body.
api_wire_to_chain					Gets a list of the coedges of a body that is a single unbranched wire.
is_PRIMITIVE_ANNOTATION					Determines if an ENTITY is a PRIMITIVE_ANNOTATION.
make_face_spline					Constructs a new FACE from a spline.

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