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CreateMeshPartitionClusters

Description

Partitions the polygons into separate clusters using a given partition criteria. Currently it only supports mesh objects created using the curvelist-to-mesh operator. The default criteria is to create one cluster per face (i.e., polygon island). In that case the clusters are named using the following convention:

"Face_#no"

[...where #no is the face number (e.g.: 1, 2, ... ).]

However, if the input curves were generated from a text primitive (using the text to curves operator) then a cluster per character of the input text is created. (For instance, when you do Create > Text > Planar Mesh or Solid Mesh.) In that case the clusters are named using the following convention:

"Char_#no_#char"

[...where #no is the character number in the text (e.g.: 1, 2, ...) and #char is the actual character itself.]

Scripting Syntax

CreateMeshPartitionClusters( [InputObjs] )

Parameters

Examples

1. VBScript Example

'Create a Mesh Text
CreateMeshText "CurveListToSolidMeshForText", siPersistentOperation

'Open an explorer window. View the scene_root
'Open Polymsh and Polygon Mesh
'The following command will add one cluster per character in Clusters object
'You can see them if you open Clusters
CreateMeshPartitionClusters "polymsh"

2. VBScript Example

'Create two curves
CreatePrim "Circle", "NurbsCurve"
Duplicate "circle", , 2, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, , , , , , , , , , , 0
Translate , 11.7369060459901, 0, 0, siRelative, siGlobal, siObj, siXYZ
AddToSelection "circle", , True
DeselectAll
SelectObj "circle", , True
AddToSelection "circle1", , True

'creates a mesh from those two curves
ApplyOp "CurveListToMesh", "circle,circle1", 3, siPersistentOperation

'Open an explorer window. View the scene_root
'Open Polymsh and Polygon Mesh
'The following command will add one cluster per face in Clusters object
'You can see them if you open Clusters
CreateMeshPartitionClusters "polymsh"

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