Pro/TOOLKIT: how to assign a texture with ProMdlVisibleTexturepropsSet()

[AndreasHellmann]

Hi to everyone,

did anyone manage to assign a texture to a surface using Pro/TOOLKIT???

I managed to use the "new" (starting with Creo2 M140) Toolkit function ProMdlVisibleAppearancepropsGet() and ProMdlVisibleAppearancepropsSet() to assign a color to a comp/surface etc.

ProMdlVisibleTexturepropsSet() works as expected. But it seems that this isn't enough to display a texture on a surface. I think I must use ProMdlVisibleTextureplacementpropsSet() to define how the texture is placed/projected and so on. This function always returns -2 (INVALID INPUT)....

Before I paste some code here - WAS ANYONE HERE ABLE TO DO THIS?

Any tricks on how to define the ProSurfaceTexturePlacementProps object/pointer???

THANKS.

Andreas

Andreas

[MartinHanak]

Hi,

I hope that you asked PTC Support the same question 🙂

[Eike_Hauptmann]

I have done that in pro develop in the past. But there are some stuff that didn't work at the moment, also inside the Coloring / Appearance section (remove color has some bugs). We have written Marc Fischer to that, but he is on vocation atm.

Br,

Eike

[AndreasHellmann]

Thanks for the replies also when they do not help to solve the problem.

My problem here in Germany is that I have only one Creo license and one toolkit license. And I am no longer allowed to open a case for PTC's customer support although I am paying 1.000 Euro "maintainance" PER MONTH.................

I have to ask a reseller and that's usually a complete waste of time; I could also ask my neighbor's dog.

Andreas

[Eike_Hauptmann]

I understand the reseller problem, so I working for one. Such calls costs much of time so you need to help PTC to understand, prove it and check if it solved, ... . So it's cost effective for a reseller too. Fast you're spending a day of work and so we everytime check if it's a showstopper, or can we life with a workaround.

So I'm not able atm to check your problem and also not able to open a case for you (so I don't have the time atm). We have just push in the set appeareance problems as a bug and I try to add this, but didn't think they will fix it if it's a bug because we didn't program out the case and push in the code, ... .

Sorry

Br,

Eike

[FV]

Hi all, Andreas, The first step is to verify that config.pro 'texture' option is 'yes'. The tricky part of the function is ProAsmitem - the usual initialization: ProAsmitem item; memset( &item, '\0', sizeof(item)); Setting the ProAsmitem, assuming that the part's ProMdl is mdl and it was initialized somehow (ProMdlCurrentGet or ProAsmcomppathMdlGet or ProMdlInit) ... ProMdlToModelitem( mdl, &item.item); item.name[0] = '\0';//redundant ProAsmcomppathInit( mdl, NULL, 0, &item.path); //for part or //ProSelectionAsmcomppathGet( sel, &item.path); //for a selected component in case of an assembly... The rest is straightforward - for testing - you should assign an existing texture to a model via UI, retrieve the texture with ProMdlVisibleTexturepropsGet(&item, &props); modify props.texture_map member with another bitmap - try to use one from the default library: strcpy( props.texture_map, "limestone-bump.jpg"); // for example and assign the modified texture to the model with : ProMdlVisibleTexturepropsSet(&item, &props); repaint window. HIH. Feliks.

[CAD_Jimmy]

hi all,

I get same problem in ProSurfaceTextureplacementpropsSet(),

the function always return PRO_TK_BAD_INPUTS.

I can use the ProSurfaceTexturepropsSet() set the surface texture image,

the part view also show the image,but actually the UI dialog ->color texture option is "off"

this problem make the part view blurred,

so i want to use the ProSurfaceTextureplacementpropsSet() improve the view,

but it's always return PRO_TK_BAD_INPUTS.

anyone know how to change the color texture option to image?

or

 know how to use ProSurfaceTextureplacementpropsSet()?

thanks!!!