[AdriaanDB]

Dear all nice (helpful) people,

I have some external file to calculate centres of mono-sized spherical packings.
Attached is a text file a random packing (shakenAndCompressed). File test.py is the python script to load into Salome.

Loading error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/adriaan/packedBedRandom.py", line 79, in <module>
fluid = geompy.MakeCut(fluid, sphere)
File "/home/adriaan/salome/appli_V7_6_0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salome/salome/geom/geomBuilder.py", line 7660, in MakeCut
return self.MakeBoolean(theShape1, theShape2, 2, checkSelfInte, theName)
File "/home/adriaan/salome/appli_V7_6_0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salome/salome/geom/geomBuilder.py", line 284, in OpenCallClose
res = theFunction(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "/home/adriaan/salome/appli_V7_6_0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salome/salome/geom/geomBuilder.py", line 7554, in MakeBoolean
RaiseIfFailed("MakeBoolean", self.BoolOp)
File "/home/adriaan/salome/appli_V7_6_0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salome/salome/geom/geomBuilder.py", line 299, in RaiseIfFailed
raise RuntimeError, Method_name + " : " + Operation.GetErrorCode()
RuntimeError: MakeBoolean : Boolean operation aborted : non valid shape result

I tried MakeCut within the loop, MakeCutList after the loop, PartitionTool.
I also tried a normal cylinder instead of divided disk. For the regular packing I tried with and without gap.
I tried increasing/decreasing Tolerance and using ProcessShape Tool, but errors weren't gone.

How can I exclude/avoid this problem?

Thanks a lot!
Kind regards.