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opBoolean FS Question

papawo
papawo Member, Developers Posts: 206 PRO
in FeatureScript
Can I do opBoolean without user selecting the "targets"?
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  • konstantin_shiriazdanov
    konstantin_shiriazdanov Member Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    if you want to boolean with every solid body of part studio then use
    "targets":qBodyType(qEverything(EntityType.BODY), BodyType.SOLID)


  • papawo
    papawo Member, Developers Posts: 206 PRO
  • konstantin_shiriazdanov
    konstantin_shiriazdanov Member Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2018
    since you want to union opBoolean should have only "tools" and "operationType" filelds in this case -
    }]"tools": qUnion[{qCreatedBy(), <code>qBodyType(qEverything(EntityType.BODY), BodyType.SOLID)
  • papawo
    papawo Member, Developers Posts: 206 PRO
  • konstantin_shiriazdanov
    konstantin_shiriazdanov Member Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2018
    sorry, my fault - round brackets for qUnion() and square brackets for argument list
    qUnion([qCreatedBy(), qBodyType(qEverything(EntityType.BODY), BodyType.SOLID)])
  • papawo
    papawo Member, Developers Posts: 206 PRO
    thank you for your explanation. it works now.
    howabout instead of qUnion , i will use qSubtraction. do i have to use targets?
  • konstantin_shiriazdanov
    konstantin_shiriazdanov Member Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2018
    if you want boolean operation of subtraction type you would have
    {"tools": qCreatedBy(),
    "targets": qBodyType(qEverything(EntityType.BODY), BodyType.SOLID),
    "operationType": BooleanOperationType.SUBTRACTION}
  • papawo
    papawo Member, Developers Posts: 206 PRO
    @konstantin_shiriazdanov --i tried the code below but I get an error saying "cannot subtract from it self". can somebody explain pls.




  • konstantin_shiriazdanov
    konstantin_shiriazdanov Member Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    it possibly means that targets contains the body created by sweep among other. so in this case
    "targets": qSubtraction( qBodyType(qEverything(EntityType.BODY), BodyType.SOLID), qCreatedBy(id+"sweep", EntityType.BODY))

  • papawo
    papawo Member, Developers Posts: 206 PRO
    it works now! thanks. i get your explanation about the sweep.
    in qsubtraction (query1,query2)
    by doing this query, it separate the 2 bodies so i can subtract it?
    while the previous code , query all the bodies including the body created by sweep hence cannot subtract to itself?
    am i understanding this correctly?
  • konstantin_shiriazdanov
    konstantin_shiriazdanov Member Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2018
    Nancy said:
    while the previous code , query all the bodies including the body created by sweep hence cannot subtract to itself?
    am i understanding this correctly?
    yes, looks like this is what happens inside boolean
  • papawo
    papawo Member, Developers Posts: 206 PRO
    @konstantin_shiriazdanov
    thank you ! 

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