Creating a Wire Body

When creating a wire body, you have the option of defining it in the shape of an arc, curve, ellipse, or polyline. An example follows of using the function ongenerate() to define a wire body polyline.

def Ongenerate(feature,function):
    points_list = [0.,0.,0., 1.,0.,0., 1.,1.,0., 1.,1.,1.]

    wireBodies = []

    primitive = ExtAPI.DataModel.GeometryBuilder.Primitives
    polyline = primitive.Wire.CreatePolyline(points_list)
    polyline_generated = polyline.Generate()
    wireBodies.Add(polyline_generated)

    feature.Bodies = wireBodies
    feature.MaterialType = MaterialTypeEnum.Add

    return True

In this example:

The method points_list () is defined for later use in the creation of the polyline body. For arguments, it expects as a list of coordinate points, which are defined by three float values per point.
The primitive variable uses the global variable ExtAPI, which serves asthe ACT entry pointinto DesignModeler, to access the data model and define the geometry builder.
The method CreatePolyline () is applied to the object Wire to generate the new body. As arguments, this method expects the coordinate points defined by the method points_list.
With the object polyline_generated, you use the method Generate () to generate the polyline.
The new body is added to the list feature.bodies as described in Creating a Sheet Body.
With the line MaterialType, you specify a material property of Add.