CFD Online Discussion Forums - Renaming surfaces in macro

Hi Jack,

yes you can, but it is likely less convenient.

are you creating the box manually by sketch, or are you using a box primitive?
If you use the latter you get methods to get the top and buttom surfaces easily. See the example below. But i assume you need settings for the sides as well?

Anyways, you also can iterate through the list of faces. If you create just a box, the order and orientation will always be the same, and you might just sequentially set the names.
For arbitrary sketch-based bodies, this should work quite similar.
Inspect the example below where the collection of faces is created. You do not need to know the names or ids to get the collection. (you can use similar methods to get a collection of bodies).

For more complex geometries, you might need to compare some additional properties. The loop has some additional lines

Or, you pick faces by location - inspect the end of the script.
This approach might be most versatile, if you can compute coordinates where your surfaces are, and when they are not too small and close to each other.

best regards,
Sebastian

Code:

import java.util.*;



import star.cadmodeler.*;

import star.common.*;

import star.base.neo.*;

import star.vis.*;



public class box extends StarMacro {



  public void execute() {

    Simulation simulation_0 = getActiveSimulation();



    // Start making CAD

    Scene scene_0 = simulation_0.getSceneManager().createScene("3D-CAD View");



    scene_0.initializeAndWait();

    CadModel cadModel_0 = simulation_0.get(SolidModelManager.class).createSolidModel(scene_0);

    scene_0.open();

    scene_0.setAdvancedRenderingEnabled(false);



   // SceneUpdate sceneUpdate_0 = scene_0.getSceneUpdate();





    Units units_0 = 

      simulation_0.getUnitsManager().getPreferredUnits(new IntVector(new int[] {0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}));

    LabCoordinateSystem labCoordinateSystem_0 = 

      simulation_0.getCoordinateSystemManager().getLabCoordinateSystem();





    // Prepare box feature

    BlockPrimitiveFeature blockPrimitiveFeature_0 = cadModel_0.getFeatureManager().createBlockPrimitiveFeature();





    // Set the box center location

    blockPrimitiveFeature_0.setCoordinateSystem(labCoordinateSystem_0);

    CadModelCoordinate cadModelCoordinate_0 = blockPrimitiveFeature_0.getCenter();

    cadModelCoordinate_0.setCoordinateSystem(labCoordinateSystem_0);

    cadModelCoordinate_0.setCoordinate(units_0, units_0, units_0, new DoubleVector(new double[] {0.0, 0.0, 0.0}));



    blockPrimitiveFeature_0.markFeatureForEdit();

    

    // Set the dimensions of the block

    blockPrimitiveFeature_0.getLength().setValue(0.1);

    blockPrimitiveFeature_0.getWidth().setValue(0.2);

    blockPrimitiveFeature_0.getHeight().setValue(0.3);



    // Create the box

    cadModel_0.getFeatureManager().execute(blockPrimitiveFeature_0);





    // rename patches

    Face face_0 = 

      ((Face) blockPrimitiveFeature_0.getTopFace());

    cadModel_0.setFaceNameAttributes(new NeoObjectVector(new Object[] {face_0}), "inlet");



    Face face_1 = 

      ((Face) blockPrimitiveFeature_0.getBottomFace());

    cadModel_0.setFaceNameAttributes(new NeoObjectVector(new Object[] {face_1}), "outlet");

    

    // Probably what you mentioned, faces by id

        Face face_4 = 

      ((Face) blockPrimitiveFeature_0.getSideFace("1"));



    cadModel_0.setFaceNameAttributes(new NeoObjectVector(new Object[] {face_4}), "wall");

    

    

    // get all faces

        star.cadmodeler.Body cadmodelerBody_1 = 

      ((star.cadmodeler.Body) blockPrimitiveFeature_0.getBody());    

      

    Collection<Face> faces = cadmodelerBody_1.getFaceManager().getFaces();

    for(Face face : faces) {

        // face names

        simulation_0.println(face.getPresentationName());



        // extracting properties from face

        NeoProperty properties = cadmodelerBody_1.getFaceManager().getFaceProperties(new Vector<Face>(Arrays.asList(face)));

        simulation_0.println(properties);

        //get Face normal

        Vector<Double> normalVector =properties.getNeoProperty(String.valueOf(face.getEntityId())).getDoubleVector("Normal");

        simulation_0.println(normalVector);

        }



    // Get Face by Location

    double[] picLocation = new double[]{-0.05, 0.0, 0.2};

    Face faceByLoc = cadModel_0.getFaceByLocation(cadmodelerBody_1,new DoubleVector(picLocation));

    simulation_0.println("Near " + Arrays.toString(picLocation) + " found Face: " + faceByLoc.getPresentationName());

    // Renaming found surface

    cadModel_0.setFaceNameAttributes(new NeoObjectVector(new Object[] {faceByLoc }), "FaceByLocation");



    // Finish CAD

    simulation_0.get(SolidModelManager.class).endEditCadModel(cadModel_0);

    simulation_0.getSceneManager().deleteScenes(new NeoObjectVector(new Object[] {scene_0}));



  

  }

}