My aim is to count the number of ADVANCED_FACEs entities that define a solid in a STEP file. To do this I chose to use OpenCascade. I read the documentation about selection of instances, however It is quite difficult for me, and I didn't succeed in understanding how to use predefined operators like step214-placed-items
, step214-shape-def-repr
and so on.
Then I looked in the comments of XSControl_Reader.hxx file, where they write:
//! For example, if you wanted to select only the advanced_faces in a STEP //! file you would use the following code: //! Example //! Reader.GiveList("xst-transferrable-roots","step-type(ADVANCED_FACE)");
At the moment, my code looks like the following.
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
//read file
STEPControl_Reader reader;
IFSelect_ReturnStatus stat = reader.ReadFile(argv[1]);
//check entities
IFSelect_PrintCount mode = IFSelect_ShortByItem;
reader.PrintCheckLoad(false, mode);
//count number of roots to transfer
Standard_Integer numberOfRoots = reader.NbRootsForTransfer();
cout << "Number of roots = " << numberOfRoots << endl << endl;
//transfer roots
Standard_Integer numberOfRootsTransfered = reader.TransferRoots();
reader.PrintCheckTransfer(false, mode);
cout << "Number of roots transfered = " << numberOfRootsTransfered << endl << endl;
//get list of all entities
Handle(TColStd_HSequenceOfTransient) list = reader.GiveList();
cout << "Number of entities = " << list->Length() << endl;
//get list of ADVANCED_FACE entities
Handle(TColStd_HSequenceOfTransient) listOfFaces = reader.GiveList("xst-transferrable-roots", "step-type(ADVANCED_FACE)");
cout << "Number of ADVANCED_FACE entities = " << listOfFaces->Length() << endl;
getchar();
return 0;
}
The output I obtain is the following:
Nb Total:0 for 0 items
Number of roots = 1
Check : W:COMPOSITE_CURVE: Segments are not connected
- Nb: 3 : 130267 130273 130279
Check : W:COMPOSITE_CURVE: Segments were disordered; fixed
- Nb: 1 : 130279
Check : W:EDGE_LOOP: Edges were intersecting, corrected
- Nb: 155 : 166207 166215 166222 166238 166276 .. etc
Check : W:B_SPLINE_CURVE_WITH_KNOTS: Poor result from projection vertex / curve 3d
- Nb: 4 : 151531 151531 151532 151532
Check : W:EDGE_CURVE: Edge was self-intersecting, corrected
- Nb: 3 : 163318 163502 163502
Nb Total:166 for 5 items
Number of roots transfered = 1
Number of entities = 1
Number of ADVANCED_FACE entities = 1
The problem is that, with the file I pass as argument to main, I expect to obtain a number of ADVANCED_FACE entities much greater than 1. What am I doing wrong?