This small example shows:
- How to declare your type
MyMesh
,
- How to add vertices and faces to a mesh,
- How to write a mesh using the IO functions.
For each program the first step is to define your type MyMesh
. OpenMesh supports general polygonal meshes (faces are polygons with varying number of vertices) as well as specialized triangle meshes (all faces are triangles). In this example we want to build a cube from six quadrangles, therefore we choose the polygonal mesh.
OpenMesh also supports different mesh kernels, specifying how all the vertices, edges, and faces are stored internally (see also Mesh Kernels). However, the storage must provide an array like interface. For the tutorial we use the supplied ArrayKernel. The predefined combinations of TriMesh/PolyMesh and the kernel are contained in OpenMesh/src/OpenMesh/Core/Mesh
, we use the PolyMesh_ArrayKernelT
.
#include <OpenMesh/Core/Mesh/PolyMesh_ArrayKernelT.hh>
Polygonal mesh based on the ArrayKernel.
Definition: PolyMesh_ArrayKernelT.hh:96
Now since we have declared our type MyMesh
, we only have to add 8 vertices and 6 quadrangles to build a cube. Adding a vertex is done using the add_vertex
method. It gets a coordinate and returns a handle to the inserted vertex. We store all handles in an array, since we need them for specifying the faces.
Kernel::Point Point
Coordinate type.
Definition: PolyMeshT.hh:112
In order to add a face to the mesh, we have to build a vector holding the handles to the face's vertices. This vector is passed to the add_face
method. The following block will create a face from the first four vertices:
std::vector<MyMesh::VertexHandle> face_vhandles;
face_vhandles.clear();
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[0]);
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[1]);
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[2]);
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[3]);
mesh.add_face(face_vhandles);
The orientation of the face is defined by the order in which the vertices are given: If you look at the frontfacing side of the polygon, then the vertices are in counter-clockwise order.
After creating all of the six faces, we want to write the resulting mesh to standard output. OpenMesh provides some basic input/output methods in the namespace OpenMesh::IO:
bool write_mesh(const Mesh &_mesh, const std::string &_filename, Options _opt=Options::Default, std::streamsize _precision=6)
Write a mesh to the file _filename.
Definition: MeshIO.hh:190
To use the IO facility of OpenMesh make sure that the include MeshIO.hh is included first.
#include <OpenMesh/Core/IO/MeshIO.hh>
#include <OpenMesh/Core/Mesh/PolyMesh_ArrayKernelT.hh>
The complete source looks like this:
#include <iostream>
#include <OpenMesh/Core/IO/MeshIO.hh>
#include <OpenMesh/Core/Mesh/PolyMesh_ArrayKernelT.hh>
int main()
{
std::vector<MyMesh::VertexHandle> face_vhandles;
face_vhandles.clear();
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[0]);
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[1]);
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[2]);
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[3]);
mesh.add_face(face_vhandles);
face_vhandles.clear();
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[7]);
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[6]);
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[5]);
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[4]);
mesh.add_face(face_vhandles);
face_vhandles.clear();
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[1]);
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[0]);
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[4]);
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[5]);
mesh.add_face(face_vhandles);
face_vhandles.clear();
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[2]);
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[1]);
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[5]);
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[6]);
mesh.add_face(face_vhandles);
face_vhandles.clear();
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[3]);
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[2]);
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[6]);
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[7]);
mesh.add_face(face_vhandles);
face_vhandles.clear();
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[0]);
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[3]);
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[7]);
face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[4]);
mesh.add_face(face_vhandles);
try
{
{
std::cerr << "Cannot write mesh to file 'output.off'" << std::endl;
return 1;
}
}
catch( std::exception& x )
{
std::cerr << x.what() << std::endl;
return 1;
}
return 0;
}
Kernel::VertexHandle VertexHandle
Handle for referencing the corresponding item.
Definition: PolyMeshT.hh:136
SmartVertexHandle add_vertex(const Point _p)
Alias for new_vertex(const Point&).
Definition: PolyMeshT.hh:238