com.openinventor.meshvizxlm.meshextracted.cell

Interface MeXSurfaceCell

All Superinterfaces:

MiCell, MiSurfaceCell

public interface MeXSurfaceCell
extends MiSurfaceCell

Defines a cell of an extracted surface mesh.

A surface cell is a polygon element that connects adjacent nodes of a surface mesh.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
double	getArea(MiGeometryI meshGeometry) Gets the area of the cell.
SbVec3d	getNormal(MiGeometryI meshGeometry) Gets the unit normal vector to the surface's plane.

Methods inherited from interface com.openinventor.meshvizxlm.mesh.cell.MiCell

getCenter, getNodeIndex, getNumNodes, getRelativeSize, isPointInsideCell

Method Detail

getArea

double getArea(MiGeometryI meshGeometry)

Gets the area of the cell.

This method is not used by extraction classes.

Parameters:

meshGeometry - the geometry of the mesh used to retrieve the node coordinates of this cell

Returns:

the area of this cell

getNormal

SbVec3d getNormal(MiGeometryI meshGeometry)

Gets the unit normal vector to the surface's plane.

This method is not used by extraction classes.

Parameters:

meshGeometry - the geometry of the mesh used to retrieve the node coordinates of this cell

Returns:

the unit normal vector {x,y,z} to the surface's plane