/*! \page create_explode_page Explode To \b Explode an object into sub-shapes, in the Main Menu select New Entity > Explode. This operation opens the Sub Shapes Selection dialog box. \image html neo-obj1.png To create a list of sub-shapes (vertices, edges, wires etc.) of the given shape using the \b Explode operation, you need to define the Main Object, which will be exploded and the Type of Sub-shapes you wish to obtain from it. The \b Result of the operation will be a List of \b GEOM_Objects (vertexes, edges, wires, faces, shells or solids). Available choices in the Sub Shapes Type combo box depend on the type of selected Main Object: - \b Compound: to extract compounds; - \b Compsolid: to extract compsolids; - \b Solid: to extract solids; - \b Shell: to extract shells; - \b Face: to extract faces; - \b Wire: to extract wires; - \b Edge: to extract edges; - \b Vertex: to extract vertices; - \b Shape: to extract top-level contents of the compound shape; - \b Flat: to extract "flat" contents of the compound shape. Note: "flat" contents means top-level simple-type sub-shapes extracted from the compound object recursively (i.e. there is no compounds in the result). For example, if a compound C1 contains a solid S1 and another compound C2 that contains solids S2 and S3 (see picture below): - Explode operation with \b Shape type given as parameter will return S1 and C2; - Explode operation with \b Flat type given as parameter will return S1, S2 and S3. \image html flat_contents.png Switching on Select Sub-shapes check box allows manual selection of sub-shapes to be extracted from the main object. In this mode the user can select sub-shapes directly in 3D viewer. Using TUI Commands you can perform this operation in a variety of ways: - geompy.ExtractShapes(Shape, Type, isSorted) explodes a Shape into sub-shapes of a given Type and returns a List of sub-shapes. This method does not return the Shape itself if it matches the Type. - geompy.SubShapeAll(Shape, Type) explodes a Shape on sub-shapes of a given Type and returns a List of sub-shapes. - geompy.SubShapeAllIDs(Shape, Type) explodes a Shape on sub-shapes of a given Type and returns a List of IDs of sub-shapes. - geompy.SubShapeAllSortedCentres(Shape, Type) explodes a shape on sub-shapes of a given type and sorts them taking into account their gravity centers, to provide stable order of sub-shapes. It returns a list of sub-shapes. - geompy.SubShapeAllSortedCentresIDs(Shape, Type) explodes a shape on sub-shapes of a given type and sorts them taking into account their gravity centers, to provide stable order of sub-shapes. It returns a List of IDs of sub-shapes. - geompy.SubShape(Shape, Type, ListOfInd) allows to obtain a compound of sub-shapes of the Shape, selected by they indices in a list of all sub-shapes of the given Type. Each index is in the range [1, Nb_Sub-Shapes_Of_Given_Type]. - geompy.SubShapeSortedCentres(Shape, Type, ListOfInd) allows to obtain a compound of sub-shapes of the Shape, selected by they indices in sorted list of all sub-shapes of the given Type. Each index is in the range [1, Nb_Sub-Shapes_Of_Given_Type] Arguments: 1 SHAPE + 1 type of SubShape. Example: \image html explode.png "A box, exploded into faces" */