[GEOM] How to partition a face in the same body
I have a few solids of a little structure. I will couple them later in the aster command file by the use of the LIAISON_MAIL command.
What I need is: let's call C1 and C2 two solids, and C1_A and C2_A the regions of each one to be coupled. C1A is a whole face of of the C1 body, while C2_A should be the projection of C1_A on C2 body (let's imagin that C2 is bigger than C1)
What i have done to obtain the C2_A region was to use the partition comand, using the C1_A face as tool: the problem here is that the new created item (PARTITION_1) is outside the C2 body in the model tree, so totally useless. Is there a way to create this region on the C2 body, making that it will be still under the same parent? I haveto create at least 12 of these couplings on my model, so it could be really useful to find a solution.
Hi
To get what you need, you should use C1 and C2 as objects in Partition operation. See Partition_1 and it's child group C2_A in the attached study.
St.Michael
May be I was unclear: the problem of your workflow is that it requires that a new entity Partition_1 is created, that is exactly what I want to avoid.
Let's think to this scenario:
I have a body and I have already created the mesh of it. Now I want to add a chamfer, a radius, an hole, or ,as in my case, I want to divide in two or more parts an existing face. At each operation, Salome creates a new geometrical object in the model tree, so the mesh associated to the parent object does not reflects the changes that exists on each child. This lead to a big consuming of time if I need to modify the original shape, because I have to recreate the whole mesh from scratch at each modification in the geometrical object.
I'm a mechanical designer and I use windows-based CAD modeler daily, and all of them operates in the way that I was describing: every operation on a solid is contained on the solid itself, and this is very useful to mantain faces IDs, constrains etc. I don't know if SALOME works in this way due to a limitation of the kernel or it is a choice of software design, but I don't feel this is the good way.
I share your desire but unfortunately SALOME can't modify objects except groups. A new object is always created as result of an operation.
AFAIK the geometrical engine of SALOME (Open Cascade) is able to implement such a behavior but SALOME is implemented as ordinary as possible, from a developer point of view.
St.Michael
