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compas

  • compas.colors
    • Color
    • ColorDict
    • ColorMap
  • compas.data
    • Data
    • DataDecoder
    • DataEncoder
    • DecoderError
    • compas_dataclasses
    • dataclass_dataschema
    • dataclass_jsonschema
    • dataclass_typeschema
    • json_dump
    • json_dumps
    • json_dumpz
    • json_load
    • json_loads
    • json_loadz
  • compas.datastructures
    • Graph
    • Mesh
    • VolMesh
    • CellNetwork
    • Tree
    • Assembly
    • AssemblyError
    • FeatureError
  • compas.files
    • GLTF
    • OBJ
    • OFF
    • PLY
    • STL
    • XML
    • prettify_string
  • compas.geometry
    • Arc
    • Bezier
    • Box
    • Brep
    • BrepEdge
    • BrepError
    • BrepFace
    • BrepFilletError
    • BrepInvalidError
    • BrepLoop
    • BrepOrientation
    • BrepTrim
    • BrepTrimIsoStatus
    • BrepTrimmingError
    • BrepType
    • BrepVertex
    • Capsule
    • Circle
    • Cone
    • ConicalSurface
    • Curve
    • CurveType
    • Cylinder
    • CylindricalSurface
    • Ellipse
    • Frame
    • Geometry
    • Hyperbola
    • KDTree
    • Line
    • NurbsCurve
    • NurbsSurface
    • Parabola
    • PlanarSurface
    • Plane
    • Point
    • Pointcloud
    • Polygon
    • Polyhedron
    • Polyline
    • Projection
    • Quaternion
    • Reflection
    • Rotation
    • Scale
    • Shape
    • Shear
    • Sphere
    • SphericalSurface
    • Surface
    • SurfaceType
    • ToroidalSurface
    • Torus
    • Transformation
    • Translation
    • Vector
    • add_vectors
    • add_vectors_xy
    • angle_planes
    • angle_points
    • angle_points_xy
    • angle_vectors
    • angle_vectors_signed
    • angle_vectors_xy
    • angles_points
    • angles_points_xy
    • angles_vectors
    • angles_vectors_xy
    • area_polygon
    • area_polygon_xy
    • area_triangle
    • area_triangle_xy
    • argmax
    • argmin
    • axis_and_angle_from_matrix
    • axis_angle_from_quaternion
    • axis_angle_vector_from_matrix
    • barycentric_coordinates
    • basis_vectors_from_matrix
    • bestfit_plane
    • bounding_box
    • bounding_box_xy
    • centroid_points
    • centroid_points_weighted
    • centroid_points_xy
    • centroid_polygon
    • centroid_polygon_edges
    • centroid_polygon_edges_xy
    • centroid_polygon_vertices
    • centroid_polygon_vertices_xy
    • centroid_polygon_xy
    • centroid_polyhedron
    • closest_line_to_point
    • closest_point_in_cloud
    • closest_point_in_cloud_xy
    • closest_point_on_line
    • closest_point_on_line_xy
    • closest_point_on_plane
    • closest_point_on_polygon_xy
    • closest_point_on_polyline
    • closest_point_on_polyline_xy
    • closest_point_on_segment
    • closest_point_on_segment_xy
    • compose_matrix
    • compute_basisfuncs
    • compute_basisfuncsderivs
    • construct_knotvector
    • convex_hull
    • convex_hull_xy
    • cross_vectors
    • cross_vectors_xy
    • decompose_matrix
    • dehomogenize_vectors
    • discrete_coons_patch
    • distance_line_line
    • distance_point_line
    • distance_point_line_sqrd
    • distance_point_line_sqrd_xy
    • distance_point_line_xy
    • distance_point_plane
    • distance_point_plane_signed
    • distance_point_point
    • distance_point_point_sqrd
    • distance_point_point_sqrd_xy
    • distance_point_point_xy
    • divide_vectors
    • divide_vectors_xy
    • dot_vectors
    • dot_vectors_xy
    • earclip_polygon
    • euler_angles_from_matrix
    • euler_angles_from_quaternion
    • find_span
    • homogenize_vectors
    • identity_matrix
    • intersection_circle_circle_xy
    • intersection_ellipse_line_xy
    • intersection_line_box_xy
    • intersection_line_line
    • intersection_line_line_xy
    • intersection_line_plane
    • intersection_line_segment
    • intersection_line_segment_xy
    • intersection_line_triangle
    • intersection_plane_circle
    • intersection_plane_plane
    • intersection_plane_plane_plane
    • intersection_polyline_box_xy
    • intersection_polyline_plane
    • intersection_segment_plane
    • intersection_segment_polyline
    • intersection_segment_polyline_xy
    • intersection_segment_segment
    • intersection_segment_segment_xy
    • intersection_sphere_line
    • intersection_sphere_sphere
    • is_ccw_xy
    • is_colinear
    • is_colinear_line_line
    • is_colinear_xy
    • is_coplanar
    • is_matrix_square
    • is_parallel_line_line
    • is_parallel_vector_vector
    • is_point_behind_plane
    • is_point_in_circle
    • is_point_in_circle_xy
    • is_point_in_convex_polygon_xy
    • is_point_in_polygon_xy
    • is_point_in_polyhedron
    • is_point_in_triangle
    • is_point_in_triangle_xy
    • is_point_infrontof_plane
    • is_point_on_line
    • is_point_on_line_xy
    • is_point_on_plane
    • is_point_on_polyline
    • is_point_on_polyline_xy
    • is_point_on_segment
    • is_point_on_segment_xy
    • is_polygon_convex
    • is_polygon_convex_xy
    • is_polygon_in_polygon_xy
    • knots_and_mults_to_knotvector
    • knotvector_to_knots_and_mults
    • length_vector
    • length_vector_sqrd
    • length_vector_sqrd_xy
    • length_vector_xy
    • local_axes
    • local_to_world_coordinates
    • matrix_determinant
    • matrix_from_axis_and_angle
    • matrix_from_axis_angle_vector
    • matrix_from_basis_vectors
    • matrix_from_change_of_basis
    • matrix_from_euler_angles
    • matrix_from_frame
    • matrix_from_frame_to_frame
    • matrix_from_orthogonal_projection
    • matrix_from_parallel_projection
    • matrix_from_perspective_entries
    • matrix_from_perspective_projection
    • matrix_from_quaternion
    • matrix_from_scale_factors
    • matrix_from_shear
    • matrix_from_shear_entries
    • matrix_from_translation
    • matrix_inverse
    • matrix_minor
    • midpoint_line
    • midpoint_line_xy
    • midpoint_point_point
    • midpoint_point_point_xy
    • mirror_point_plane
    • mirror_points_line
    • mirror_points_line_xy
    • mirror_points_plane
    • mirror_points_point
    • mirror_points_point_xy
    • mirror_vector_vector
    • multiply_matrices
    • multiply_matrix_vector
    • multiply_vectors
    • multiply_vectors_xy
    • norm_vector
    • norm_vectors
    • normal_polygon
    • normal_triangle
    • normal_triangle_xy
    • normalize_vector
    • normalize_vector_xy
    • normalize_vectors
    • normalize_vectors_xy
    • offset_line
    • offset_polygon
    • offset_polyline
    • orient_points
    • orthonormalize_axes
    • orthonormalize_vectors
    • power_vector
    • power_vectors
    • project_point_line
    • project_point_line_xy
    • project_point_plane
    • project_points_line
    • project_points_line_xy
    • project_points_plane
    • quaternion_canonize
    • quaternion_conjugate
    • quaternion_from_axis_angle
    • quaternion_from_euler_angles
    • quaternion_from_matrix
    • quaternion_is_unit
    • quaternion_multiply
    • quaternion_norm
    • quaternion_unitize
    • reflect_line_plane
    • reflect_line_triangle
    • rotate_points
    • rotate_points_xy
    • scale_points
    • scale_points_xy
    • scale_vector
    • scale_vector_xy
    • scale_vectors
    • scale_vectors_xy
    • sort_points
    • sort_points_xy
    • square_vector
    • square_vectors
    • subtract_vectors
    • subtract_vectors_xy
    • sum_vectors
    • tangent_points_to_circle_xy
    • transform_frames
    • transform_points
    • transform_vectors
    • translate_points
    • translate_points_xy
    • translation_from_matrix
    • transpose_matrix
    • tween_points
    • tween_points_distance
    • vector_average
    • vector_component
    • vector_component_xy
    • vector_standard_deviation
    • vector_variance
    • volume_polyhedron
    • world_to_local_coordinates
    • bestfit_circle_numpy
    • bestfit_frame_numpy
    • bestfit_line_numpy
    • bestfit_plane_numpy
    • bestfit_sphere_numpy
    • closest_points_in_cloud_numpy
    • convex_hull_numpy
    • convex_hull_xy_numpy
    • dehomogenize_and_unflatten_frames_numpy
    • dehomogenize_numpy
    • homogenize_and_flatten_frames_numpy
    • homogenize_numpy
    • icp_numpy
    • local_to_world_coordinates_numpy
    • oriented_bounding_box_numpy
    • oriented_bounding_box_xy_numpy
    • pca_numpy
    • transform_points_numpy
    • transform_vectors_numpy
    • trimesh_descent_numpy
    • trimesh_gradient_numpy
    • world_to_local_coordinates_numpy
    • boolean_difference_mesh_mesh
    • boolean_difference_polygon_polygon
    • boolean_intersection_mesh_mesh
    • boolean_intersection_polygon_polygon
    • boolean_symmetric_difference_polygon_polygon
    • boolean_union_mesh_mesh
    • boolean_union_polygon_polygon
    • conforming_delaunay_triangulation
    • constrained_delaunay_triangulation
    • delaunay_triangulation
    • intersection_mesh_mesh
    • intersection_ray_mesh
    • oriented_bounding_box
    • quadmesh_planarize
    • trimesh_gaussian_curvature
    • trimesh_geodistance
    • trimesh_harmonic
    • trimesh_isolines
    • trimesh_lscm
    • trimesh_massmatrix
    • trimesh_mean_curvature
    • trimesh_principal_curvature
    • trimesh_remesh
    • trimesh_remesh_along_isoline
    • trimesh_remesh_constrained
    • trimesh_slice
  • compas.itertools
    • normalize_values
    • remap_values
    • meshgrid
    • linspace
    • flatten
    • reshape
    • pairwise
    • window
    • iterable_like
  • compas.plugins
    • IncompletePluginImplError
    • PluginDefaultNotAvailableError
    • PluginManager
    • PluginNotInstalledError
    • PluginValidator
    • pluggable
    • plugin
    • plugin_manager
  • compas.rpc
    • Dispatcher
    • Proxy
    • RPCClientError
    • RPCServerError
    • Server
  • compas.scene
    • GeometryObject
    • MeshObject
    • GraphObject
    • Scene
    • SceneObject
    • SceneObjectNotRegisteredError
    • VolMeshObject
    • get_sceneobject_cls
    • register
    • clear
    • before_draw
    • after_draw
    • register_scene_objects
  • compas.tolerance
    • Tolerance
    • TOL

compas_blender

  • compas_blender.conversions
    • bmesh_to_compas
    • circle_to_blender_curve
    • color_to_blender_material
    • cylinder_to_blender_mesh
    • line_to_blender_curve
    • mesh_to_blender
    • mesh_to_compas
    • meshobj_to_compas
    • monkey_to_compas
    • nurbscurve_to_blender_curve
    • nurbssurface_to_blender_surface
    • pointcloud_to_blender
    • polygon_to_blender_mesh
    • polyline_to_blender_curve
    • sphere_to_blender_mesh
    • transformation_to_blender
    • transformation_to_compas
    • vertices_and_faces_to_blender_mesh
  • compas_blender.geometry
    • boolean_difference_mesh_mesh
    • boolean_intersection_mesh_mesh
    • boolean_union_mesh_mesh
  • compas_blender.scene
    • BlenderSceneObject
    • BoxObject
    • CircleObject
    • CurveObject
    • FrameObject
    • LineObject
    • MeshObject
    • GraphObject
    • PointObject
    • PointcloudObject
    • PolygonObject
    • PolyhedronObject
    • PolylineObject
    • SurfaceObject
    • VectorObject
    • VolMeshObject

compas_ghpython

  • compas_ghpython.components
    • install_userobjects
    • uninstall_userobjects
  • compas_ghpython.scene
    • BoxObject
    • CapsuleObject
    • CircleObject
    • ConeObject
    • CurveObject
    • CylinderObject
    • EllipseObject
    • FrameObject
    • GHSceneObject
    • LineObject
    • MeshObject
    • GraphObject
    • PointObject
    • PolygonObject
    • PolyhedronObject
    • PolylineObject
    • SphereObject
    • SurfaceObject
    • TorusObject
    • VectorObject
    • VolMeshObject

compas_rhino

  • compas_rhino.conversions
    • ConversionError
    • arc_to_compas
    • arc_to_rhino
    • box_to_compas
    • box_to_rhino
    • brep_to_compas_box
    • brep_to_compas_cone
    • brep_to_compas_cylinder
    • brep_to_compas_sphere
    • brep_to_rhino
    • capsule_to_rhino_brep
    • circle_to_compas
    • circle_to_rhino
    • circle_to_rhino_curve
    • cone_to_compas
    • cone_to_rhino
    • cone_to_rhino_brep
    • curve_to_compas_circle
    • curve_to_compas_ellipse
    • curve_to_compas_line
    • curve_to_compas_polyline
    • curve_to_rhino
    • cylinder_to_compas
    • cylinder_to_rhino
    • cylinder_to_rhino_brep
    • ellipse_to_compas
    • ellipse_to_rhino
    • ellipse_to_rhino_curve
    • extrusion_to_compas_box
    • extrusion_to_compas_cylinder
    • extrusion_to_compas_torus
    • frame_to_rhino
    • frame_to_rhino_plane
    • line_to_compas
    • line_to_rhino
    • line_to_rhino_curve
    • mesh_to_compas
    • mesh_to_rhino
    • plane_to_compas
    • plane_to_compas_frame
    • plane_to_rhino
    • point_to_compas
    • point_to_rhino
    • polygon_to_compas
    • polygon_to_rhino
    • polyhedron_to_rhino
    • polyline_to_compas
    • polyline_to_rhino
    • polyline_to_rhino_curve
    • sphere_to_compas
    • sphere_to_rhino
    • surface_to_compas
    • surface_to_compas_mesh
    • surface_to_rhino
    • torus_to_rhino
    • torus_to_rhino_brep
    • transformation_matrix_to_rhino
    • transformation_to_rhino
    • vector_to_compas
    • vector_to_rhino
    • vertices_and_faces_to_rhino
  • compas_rhino.geometry
    • RhinoBrep
    • RhinoBrepEdge
    • RhinoBrepFace
    • RhinoBrepLoop
    • RhinoBrepTrim
    • RhinoBrepVertex
    • RhinoNurbsCurve
    • RhinoNurbsSurface
    • boolean_difference_mesh_mesh
    • boolean_intersection_mesh_mesh
    • boolean_union_mesh_mesh
    • trimesh_gaussian_curvature
    • trimesh_mean_curvature
    • trimesh_principal_curvature
    • trimesh_slice
  • compas_rhino.scene
    • RhinoBoxObject
    • RhinoBrepObject
    • RhinoCapsuleObject
    • RhinoCircleObject
    • RhinoConeObject
    • RhinoCurveObject
    • RhinoCylinderObject
    • RhinoEllipseObject
    • RhinoFrameObject
    • RhinoLineObject
    • RhinoMeshObject
    • RhinoGraphObject
    • RhinoPlaneObject
    • RhinoPointObject
    • RhinoPolygonObject
    • RhinoPolyhedronObject
    • RhinoPolylineObject
    • RhinoSceneObject
    • RhinoSphereObject
    • RhinoSurfaceObject
    • RhinoTorusObject
    • RhinoVectorObject
    • RhinoVolMeshObject
  • API Reference
  • BrepEdge
  • BrepEdge.to_ellipse

BrepEdge.to_ellipse

BrepEdge.to_ellipse()[source]

Get an ellipse from this edge’s geometry.

Returns:
compas.geometry.Ellipse
On this page
  • BrepEdge.to_ellipse()

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