WIRE
List of: Classes
Subjects: Model Topology, SAT Save and Restore
Contents: Kernel

Purpose: Represents a collection of edges that are owned by a body but are not attached to faces and do not enclose any volume.

Derivation: WIRE : ENTITY : ACIS_OBJECT : -

SAT Identifier: "wire"

Filename: kern/kernel/kerndata/top/wire.hxx

Description: A wire represents a connected collection of unembedded edges. It is owned by a body or a shell, the latter necessarily if the wire is attached to corners of faces in the shell, or if it is internal to a lump (which will own the shell). Isolated wires used to be owned by bodies, and may remain so, though they might logically go into a shell owned by a lump owned by the body.


Usually each edge has one coedge. Coedges are linked in circular lists around each vertex using next and previous pointers according to which end of the coedge lies at the vertex. When Booleans are used to slice (imprint) one body with another, a wire is returned that has two coedges per edge; the coedges have attributes giving details of the intersections of the body boundaries at each edge.

References: KERN COEDGE, ENTITY, SUBSHELL

by KERN BODY, SHELL, SUBSHELL, pattern_holder

Constructor: public: WIRE::WIRE ();


C++ allocation constructor requests memory for this object but does not populate it. The allocation constructor is used primarily by restore. Applications should call this constructor only with the overloaded new operator, because this reserves the memory on the heap, a requirement to support roll back and history management.






public: WIRE::WIRE (


COEDGE*, // first COEDGE


WIRE* // next WIRE on BODY


);


C++ initialize constructor requests memory for this object and populates it with the data supplied as arguments. Applications should call this constructor only with the overloaded new operator, because this reserves the memory on the heap, a requirement to support roll back and history management.


Creates and initializes a WIRE, setting COEDGE back pointers. The arguments define the first COEDGE in this WIRE and the next WIRE in a list of WIREs on the BODY, respectively.




Destructor: public: virtual void WIRE::lose ();


Posts a delete bulletin to the bulletin board indicating the instance is no longer used in the active model. The lose methods for attached attributes are also called.






protected: virtual WIRE::~WIRE ();


This C++ destructor should never be called directly. Instead, applications should use the overloaded lose method inherited from the ENTITY class, because this supports history management. (For example, x=new WIRE(...) then later x->lose.)



Methods: public: BODY* WIRE::body () const;


Returns a back pointer to containing BODY. Returns NULL if the WIRE's owner is not a BODY. Each WIRE may belong to only one BODY.






public: SPAbox* WIRE::bound () const;


Return a pointer to a geometric bounding region (a SPAbox), within which the entire WIRE lies (with respect to the internal coordinate system of the BODY). The pointer can be NULL if no such bound was calculated since the WIRE was last changed.






protected: virtual logical


WIRE::bulletin_no_change_vf (


ENTITY const* other,
// other entity


logical identical_comparator // comparator


) const;


Virtual function for comparing subclass data - called by bulletin_no_change. For the identical_comparator argument to be TRUE requires an exact match when comparing doubles and returns the result of memcmp as a default (for non-overridden subclasses). FALSE indicates tolerant compares and returns FALSE as a default.






public: COEDGE* WIRE::coedge () const;


Returns a pointer to a COEDGE in the WIRE. No significance is placed upon the choice of this COEDGE, which may change during modeling operations.






public: WIRECONTBIT WIRE::cont () const;


Returns the containment information. ALL_OUTSIDE indicates the WIRE represents material in space. ALL_INSIDE indicates the WIRE represents an infinitesimally small hole through material.






public: logical WIRE::copy_pattern_down (


ENTITY* target
// target


) const;


Copies the pattern through all children of the target entity.






public: virtual void WIRE::debug_ent (


FILE* // file pointer


) const;


Prints the type and address of this object, roll back pointer, attributes, and any unknown subtype information to the specified file. Refer to the ENTITY class for more details.






public: void WIRE::get_all_patterns (


VOID_LIST& list
// pattern list


);


Returns all patterns in the list.






public: virtual int WIRE::identity (


int
// level



= 0


) const;


If level is unspecified or 0, returns the type identifier WIRE_TYPE. If level is specified, returns WIRE_TYPE for that level of derivation from ENTITY. The level of this class is defined as WIRE_LEVEL.






public: virtual logical WIRE::is_deepcopyable (


) const;


Returns TRUE if this can be deep copied.






public: WIRE* WIRE::next (


PAT_NEXT_TYPE next_type // wire type



= PAT_CAN_CREATE // for patterns

) const;


Returns a pointer to the next WIRE in a complete enumeration of all the WIREs in a BODY or SHELL. The order is not defined and may change when SUBSHELLs are recomputed.


The next_type argument controls how the next method treats patterns, and can take any one of three values:


PAT_CAN_CREATE: if the next wire is to be generated from a pattern, create it if it doesn't yet exist and return its pointer.

PAT_NO_CREATE: if the next wire is to be generated from a pattern, but hasn't yet been created, bypass it and return the pointer of the next already-created wire (if any).

PAT_IGNORE: behave as though there is no pattern on the wire.






public: WIRE* WIRE::next_in_list (


PAT_NEXT_TYPE next_type // wire type



= PAT_CAN_CREATE // for patterns

) const;


Return a pointer to the next WIRE contained directly by a BODY, SHELL, or SUBSHELL.


The next_type argument controls how the next method treats patterns, and can take any one of three values:


PAT_CAN_CREATE: if the next wire is to be generated from a pattern, create it if it doesn't yet exist and return its pointer.

PAT_NO_CREATE: if the next wire is to be generated from a pattern, but hasn't yet been created, bypass it and return the pointer of the next already-created wire (if any).

PAT_IGNORE: behave as though there is no pattern on the wire.






public: ENTITY* WIRE::owner () const;


Returns a pointer to the owning ENTITY.






public: void WIRE::restore_common ();


The RESTORE_DEF macro expands to the restore_common method, which is used in reading information from a SAT file. This method is never called directly. It is called by a higher hierarchical function if an item in the SAT file is determined to be of this class type. An instance of this class will already have been created through the allocation constructor. This method then populates the class instance with the appropriate data from the SAT file.


if (restore_version_number < PATTERN_VERSION

read_ptr APATTERN index


if (apat_idx != (APATTERN*)(-1)))


restore_cache();

read_ptr Pointer to record in save file for next WIRE in body, shell or subshell

read_ptr Pointer to record in save file for first COEDGE in wire

read_ptr Pointer to record in save file for (ENTITY) body or shell containing wire

if (restore_version_number >= WIREBOOL_VERSION)

read_ptr Pointer to record in save file for SUBSHELL containing wire

read_logical ("out" "in") Containment of wire

else




Pointer to SUBSHELL set to NULL and containment of wire set to ALL_OUTSIDE.






public: void WIRE::set_body (


BODY* // owning BODY


);


Sets the WIRE's owning BODY to be the given BODY. Before performing a change, it checks whether the data structure is posted on the bulletin board. If not, the routine calls backup to put an entry on the bulletin board.






public: void WIRE::set_bound (


SPAbox* // bounding box


);


Sets the WIRE's bounding box to be the given SPAbox. Before performing a change, it checks whether the data structure is posted on the bulletin board. If not, the routine calls backup to put an entry on the bulletin board.






public: void WIRE::set_coedge (


COEDGE* // first COEDGE


);


Sets the first COEDGE in the WIRE's list of COEDGES to be the given COEDGE. Before performing a change, it checks whether the data structure is posted on the bulletin board. If not, the routine calls backup to put an entry on the bulletin board.






public: void WIRE::set_cont (


WIRECONTBIT // containment


);


Set the containment for the WIRE.






public: void WIRE::set_next (


WIRE*, // next WIRE


logical reset_pattern // reset or not



= TRUE


);


Sets the next WIRE in the BODY's list of WIREs to the given WIRE. Before performing a change, it checks whether the data structure is posted on the bulletin board. If not, the routine calls backup to put an entry on the bulletin board.






public: void WIRE::set_owner (


ENTITY* // entity


);


Set the WIRE's owner to be the specified BODY or SHELL.






public: void WIRE::set_pattern (


pattern* in_pat
//


);






public: void WIRE::set_shell (


SHELL* // shell


logical reset_pattern // reset or not



= TRUE


);


Sets the WIRE's owning SHELL to be the given SHELL.






public: void WIRE::set_subshell (


SUBSHELL* // subshell


);


Sets the SUBSHELL directly containing the WIRE to be the given SUBSHELL






public: SHELL* WIRE::shell () const;


Return a pointer to the owning SHELL. Returns NULL if the owning ENTITY is not a SHELL.






public: SUBSHELL* WIRE::subshell () const;


Return a pointer to the SUBSHELL directly containing this WIRE. Returns NULL if the WIRE is directly contained by its ENTITY, BODY, or SHELL.






public: virtual const char* WIRE::type_name () const;


Returns the string "wire".




Related Fncs: is_WIRE
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