PlanarSlicer¶

class compas_slicer.slicers.PlanarSlicer(mesh, slicer_type='default', layer_height=2.0)[source]¶

Bases: compas_slicer.slicers.base_slicer.BaseSlicer

Generates planar contours on a mesh that are parallel to the xy plane.

Attributes

• mesh (compas.datastructures.Mesh) – Input mesh, it must be a triangular mesh (i.e. no quads or n-gons allowed).

• slicer_type (str) – String representing which slicing method to use. options: ‘default’, ‘cgal’, ‘meshcut’

• layer_height (float) – Distance between layers (slices).

Attributes

Inherited Attributes

horizontal_layers	Returns a list of all the layers stored in the slicer that are NOT vertical.
number_of_layers	Total number of layers.
number_of_paths	Total number of paths, number of open paths, number of closed paths.
number_of_points	Total number of points in the slicer.
vertical_layers	Returns a list of all the vertical layers stored in the slicer.

Methods

__init__(mesh[, slicer_type, layer_height])	Initialize self.
generate_paths()	Generates the planar slicing paths.

Inherited Methods

close_paths()	For paths that are labeled as closed, it makes sure that the first and the last point are identical.
find_vertical_layers_with_first_path_on_base()
from_data(data)	Construct a slicer from its data representation.
get_layers_dict()	Returns a dictionary consisting of the layers.
post_processing()	Applies standard post-processing operations: seams_align and unify_paths.
printout_info()	Prints out information from the slicing process.
remove_invalid_paths_and_layers()	Removes invalid layers and paths from the slicer.
slice_model(*args, **kwargs)	Slices the model and applies standard post-processing and removing of invalid paths.
to_data()	Returns a dictionary of structured data representing the data structure.
to_json(filepath, name)	Writes the slicer to a JSON file.
visualize_on_viewer(viewer[, …])	Visualizes slicing result using compas.viewers.