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In the hexahedral case, blocks have 6 faces and each face has 4 edges. </p> <p> </p> <p>Tetrahedral Block - is a block with constraints for tetrahedral meshing. </p> <p> </p> <p>Hexahedral Block - is a block with constraints for hexahedral meshing.</p> <p> </p> <p>Block Compound - is a compound composed of blocks only.</p> <p> </p> <p>These functionalities are available from the main menu via <span style="font-style: italic;"><I>New Entity / Blocks.</I></span></p> <p> </p> <ul type="disc" class="whs3"> <li class=kadov-p><p><a href="#QuadrangleFace">Quadrangle face</a></p></li> <li class=kadov-p><p><a href="#HexahedralSolid">Hexahedral solid</a></p></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><a name=QuadrangleFace><img src="image29.gif" width="23px" height="22px" border="0" class="img_whs4"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;"><font size=4 style="font-size:14pt;"><B>Quadrangle face</B></font></span></a></p> <p> </p> <p class="whs5"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font size=3 style="font-size:12pt;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Description:</b> Builds a face using the below mentioned arguments. This operation allows to build a face bypassing the intermediate stage of building edges and wires (in the case of building by 4 points) or wires (in the case of building by 4 or 2 edges).</font></span></p> <p class="whs5"> </p> <p class="whs5"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><font size=3 style="font-size:12pt;">T</b><b>he</font></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font size=3 style="font-size:12pt;"> Result </font></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><font size=3 style="font-size:12pt;">of the operation will be a</font></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font size=3 style="font-size:12pt;"><b> GEOM_Object</b></font></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font size=3 style="font-size:12pt;"> (face).</font></span></p> <p class="whs5"> </p> <p class="whs5"><b style="font-weight: bold;">TUI Command:</b></p> <ul type="disc" class="whs3"> <li class=kadov-p><p class="whs6"><b style="font-weight: normal;">geompy.MakeQuad4Vertices(V1, V2, V3, V4), <span style="font-style: normal;">where V1, V2, V3, V4 are four vertices from which a face is constructed. Edges are created automatically.</span></b></p></li> <li class=kadov-p><p class="whs5"><span style="font-style: italic;"><I>geompy.MakeQuad2Edges(E1, E2)</I></span>, where E1, E2 are edges from which the face is constructed, two other edges are created automatically.</p></li> <li class=kadov-p><p class="whs5"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><I>g</b>eompy.MakeQuad(E1, E2, E3, E4)</I></span>, where E1, E2, E3, E4 are four edges from which the face is constructed.</p></li> </ul> <p class="whs5"> </p> <p class="whs5"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Arguments:</b> </p> <ul type="disc" class="whs3"> <li class=kadov-p><p class="whs5">Name + 4 Points, or</p></li> <li class=kadov-p><p class="whs5">Name + 2 Edges, or </p></li> <li class=kadov-p><p class="whs5">Name + 4 Edges.</p></li> </ul> <p class="whs5"> </p> <p class="whs5"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Dialog Box:</b></p> <table x-use-null-cells cellspacing="0" width="66.515%" class="whs7"> <col class="whs8"> <col class="whs9"> <col class="whs10"> <tr valign="top" class="whs11"> <td width="32.996%" class="whs12"> <p><img src="pics/block1.png" x-maintain-ratio="TRUE" width="312px" height="410px" border="0" class="img_whs13"></td> <td width="33.052%" class="whs14"> <p><img src="pics/block2.png" x-maintain-ratio="TRUE" width="312px" height="410px" border="0" class="img_whs13"></td> <td width="33.952%" class="whs15"> <p><img src="pics/block3.png" x-maintain-ratio="TRUE" width="312px" height="410px" border="0" class="img_whs13"></td></tr> </table> <p class="whs5"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="whs16">Example:</p> <p class="whs16"> </p> <p class="whs17"><img src="image185.jpg" width="250px" height="195px" border="0" class="img_whs18"> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><a name=HexahedralSolid><img src="image51.gif" width="24px" height="22px" border="0" class="img_whs19"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;"><font size=4 style="font-size:14pt;"><B>Hexahedral solid</B></font></span></a></p> <p> </p> <p class="whs5"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Description:</b> Builds a hexahedral solid. either of the below mentioned arguments. This operation allows to build a solid bypassing the intermediate stage of building a shell and 4 faces (in the case of building by 2 faces) or just a shell (in the case of building by 6 faces).</p> <p class="whs5"> </p> <p class="whs5"><b style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The</span> Result<span style="font-weight: normal;"> of the operation will be a</span></b><b> GEOM_Object</b> (solid).</p> <p> </p> <p class="whs5"><b style="font-weight: bold;">TUI Command:</b></p> <ul type="disc" class="whs3"> <li class=kadov-p><p class="whs5"><span style="font-style: italic;"><I>geompy.MakeHexa2Faces(F1, F2)</I></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><I>, where F1 and F2 are faces from which the hexahedron is constructed, other four faces are created automatically.</I></span></p></li> <li class=kadov-p><p class="whs5"><span style="font-style: italic;"><I>geompy.MakeHexa(F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6)</I></span>, where F1 � F6 are six faces from which the hexahedron is constructed.</p></li> </ul> <p class="whs5"> </p> <p class="whs5"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Arguments:</b> </p> <ul type="disc" class="whs3"> <li class=kadov-p><p class="whs5">Name + 2 Faces, or </p></li> <li class=kadov-p><p class="whs5">Name + 6 Faces.</p></li> </ul> <p class="whs5"> </p> <p class="whs5"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Dialog Box:</b></p> <p class="whs5"> </p> <table x-use-null-cells cellspacing="0" width="40.406%" class="whs20"> <col class="whs21"> <col class="whs22"> <tr valign="top" class="whs11"> <td width="49.761%" class="whs23"> <p class="whs5"><b style="font-weight: bold;"> <img src="pics/block4.png" x-maintain-ratio="TRUE" width="312px" height="324px" border="0" class="img_whs24"></b></td> <td width="50.239%" class="whs25"> <p><img src="pics/block5.png" x-maintain-ratio="TRUE" width="312px" height="464px" border="0" class="img_whs26"></td></tr> <tr valign="top" class="whs11"> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1" width="49.761%" class="whs27"> <p class="whs5"> </td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1" width="50.239%" class="whs28"> <p> </td></tr> </table> <p class="whs5"> </p> <p class="whs29">Example:</p> <p class="whs29"> </p> <p class="whs30"><img src="image180.jpg" x-maintain-ratio="TRUE" width="300px" height="234px" border="0" class="img_whs31"> <img src="image181.jpg" width="251px" height="234px" border="0" class="img_whs32"> </p> <p class="whs33"><b style="font-weight: bold;"> </b> </p> <p class="whs5">Our <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>TUI Scripts</B></span> provide you with useful examples of <a href="building_by_blocks.htm">Building by Blocks</a>. </p> <p> </p> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript1.2"> <!-- if (window.writeIntopicBar) writeIntopicBar(0); //--> </script> </body> </html>