3-matics create surface set

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Hi,

Is it possible to create a surface set in 3-matics?

I can see various functions to work with SurfaceSets:

  • trimatic.fix.surface_sets_to_parts
  • trimatic.types.Part.find_surface_set
  • trimatic.types.Part.find_surface_sets
  • trimatic.types.Part.get_surface_sets
  • trimatic.types.SurfaceSet.find_surface_set
  • trimatic.types.SurfaceSet.find_surface_sets
  • trimatic.types.SurfaceSet.get_surface_sets

but I cant see anything to create a new SurfaceSet.

Thanks

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Hi Peter,

Thank you for reaching out to us.
Before I can help you with your question, could you help me know if by creating a surface set, does this mean that your main goal is to group several surfaces under one set? Or else, do you want to create a surface in an existing or new part?

Thanks,

Kind regards,
Imanina

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Hi Imanina

It was to group several related surfaces into a surface set (in an existing part).

Best wishes, Pete

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Hi Pete,

Thank you for your fast response.
For your information, for the time being we don’t have the API to group several surfaces into a surface set.

However, one workaround that I can suggest is to move the surfaces that you want to group to a new part, rename the part as per desired and finally merge the new part with the original part.

API that you can use:

  1. trimatic.move_to_part
  2. trimatic.merge

In the example below, I have moved surface_a and surface_b from part1 into a new part, rename the new part as ‘surface_set1’, merge this part with part1, and rename the resulting part as ‘part1’.

before:
2023-01-25_19-12-07

after:
2023-01-25_19-17-40

Please let me know if you need further clarification on how to do this operation.
Hope this helps!

Kind regards,
Imanina