Hello everyone,
I'm trying to use the "rotate" function obtained from the "plottool" collection downloaded from this community some time ago. I would like to know why the "rotatemesh" function is marked in red as it is evident from the following figure, while the function "rotate" which utilizes it, doesn't give error?:
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@StuartBruff wrote:
@-MFra- wrote:
Hello everyone,
I'm trying to use the "rotate" function obtained from the "plottool" collection downloaded from this community some time ago. I would like to know why the "rotatemesh" function is marked in red as it is evident from the following figure, while the function "rotate" which utilizes it, doesn't give error?:
Because rotate operates upon the whole 3D mesh (3x(BoundxBound)) whereas rotatemesh only operates upon an individual mesh (eg, x-y or z-x (BoundxBound)). Try vectorizing the rotatemesh expression in Frotate.
Stuart
Arrgggh! Ignore the above. That's not what's happening.
A 3D-mesh is a 3x{mxn} nested array. rotatemesh is designed to rotate a 3D-mesh.
Createmesh returns a nested 3D-mesh. In your instance, Createmesh returns a 1x1 array containing a 3D-mesh. To handle nested 3D-meshes, you should use rotate, which is designed to rotate a set of 3D-meshes. rotate will also handle a 3D-mesh and should, therefore, be used in preference to rotatemesh.
The reason vectorize works on rotatemesh(Fmesh, ...) is because the sole element of Fmesh is a 3D-mesh. If you'd written rotatemesh(Fmesh₀,...) that would have worked as well.
Apologies for the confusion. I'm going to blame my responding just after I'd woken up and not having had a cup of tea. Either that or I'm just an idiot ... ☹️
Stuart
@StuartBruff wrote:
A 3D-mesh is a 3x{mxn} nested array. rotatemesh is designed to rotate a 3D-mesh.
Createmesh returns a nested 3D-mesh. In your instance, Createmesh returns a 1x1 array containing a 3D-mesh.
Note that, for some reason or other(*), this is not the case in Prime.
CreateMesh now returns a 3D-mesh and the 3D Plot component no longer accepts a nested array of meshes. This messed up a lot of my worksheets.
M15 ...
MP7 ...
Stuart
(*) I struggle to see a technical or philosophical reason why PTC felt the need to change Prime's behaviour in this respect.
Yes, but, unfortunately, Prime's no longer capable of treating a set of related meshes as one object ... and I don't feel enamoured of the idea of typing in each and every one of the meshes to display several such objects.
I can't do the below in Prime. I have to scale & translate outside of the plot then manually input each mesh into the 3D Plot. Or, at least, AFAIA.
Unless, ... just a minute ...
Doesn't solve all the problems, but ...
where
Stuart
The graphics are not clear, that is: since Fmesh represents a surface, applying a rotation to Fmesh should produce the same surface but rotated. Instead rotatemesh produces two sections rotated at ninety degrees, why? it seems wrong to me.
