Hi,
Is it possible to automatically seed several triangulations, without starting the Automatic Seeding Wizard? Thus seeding trough a batch/input routine.
The Wizard gives an error after seeding some triangulations. I have to restart MX to continuing seeding.
With regards
Gunther Groenestein
I'm opening up a can of worms here probably but there are several 'undocumented' linemode codes that could help here. Key phrase though is 'undocumented' as they're essentially unsupported as well but I know people are using this method.
Basically the GUI seeding methods found under Analysis > Triangulation > Group by 'seeding / individual / boundary / seed string / criteria' can be journaled - I'm not 100% that all options will work hence again the undocumented aspect again :-)
The choice of the interactive approach will then guide you towards the option you want to use, but I'd probably recommend you looking at creating boundary strings in linemode and then journaling the group by boundary option so you can then incorporate into an input file.
That said I can't stress how important it is if you have having a problem with certain data that you please report it and pass the data on so we can investigate and fix it.
Regards
Hi Gunther,
you might want to look at using seed strings and minor option 966.
Best Regards
Wolfgang
Hi All
The hidden code to group triangles doesn't work in MX XM or V8i....is currently been reported to bentley support team with NO clear direction weather it's going to be fix for future releases of the product.
tx
stewart
The purpose of a batch automatic seeding would be to apply a (default) seeding file to triangulation string/model, without running through the Automatic seeding wizard for every single triangulation. Every thing is done by Inputfiles but the last step (the seeding) is done manually (starting the wizard, applying the existing seeding file, close, restart wizard,...)
The Seeding is very useful to quickly show a MX-design to non-technical users
The 966 doesn't work if you like to seed between for example B7 and C4. Unless you triangulate between these string and seed this new triangulation.
The journal doesn't work for the seeding wizard, because it doesn't use linemode to interact with the triangulation. The modification is directly done on the triangulation. Question is how :)...
You can seed between any strings when you use seed strings.
I wonder if the concept of seed strings is fully understood. You should create a special seed string which contains the seeding points. A seed string would typically be a point string. The points of the seed string are the starting points from where the algorithm starts to search for string links, thus it's comparable to the "Fill to String Links" button from the "Automating Seeding" tool (see attached image). Please note that you can use per 996 option a separate tolerance. The tolerance can be used to avoid that the seeding "spills" out of the designated area.
I've attached an example input file which is based on the "MX Tutorial Design".
The downside of this method is obviously the extra work of creating the seed strings.