Applying the Transform Edges to Wire Tool

When using the Transform Edges to Wire operation tool, you must first create a geometry that has some edges. You can create any of the sheet body or solid body shapes listed in Creating Primitives. Once the primitive is created, you can obtain a wire body from its edges by defining and applying the Transform Edges to Wire tool.

In the following example, the function ongenerate() creates a polygon sheet body and applies the Transform Edges to Wire tool.

def Ongenerate(feature,function):
    length = 0.3
    bodies = []

    builder = ExtAPI.DataModel.GeometryBuilder
    polygon = builder.Primitives.Sheet.CreatePolygon([0.,0.,2.*length,0.,0.,1.*length,length,0.,0.7])
    polygon_generated = polygon.Generate()
    body = builder.Operations.Tools.EdgesToWireBody(polygon_generated.Edges);
    bodies.Add(body)

    feature.Bodies = bodies
    feature.MaterialType = MaterialTypeEnum.Add

    return True

In this example:

The first part of the function creates a polygon sheet body using a process similar to the one used to create a cylinder in Creating a Sheet Body.
With the body function, you use the operations generator builder.Operations.Tools.EdgesToWireBody. The method EdgesToWireBody specifies that the operation tool is to transform the edges of the sheet body polygon into a wire body.
Note: While the variable Length is used for both the sheet body and the extrusion definition in this example, you could have used a different variable for each.
The new wire body is added to the list feature.bodies as described in Applying the Extrude Operation.