If you need to align two planes, you can obtain the transformation needed (which in general is a roto-translation) using:
Align3D(Point3D p1A, Point3D p1B, Point3D p2A, Point3D p2B, Point3D p3A, Point3D p3B)
Align3D(Plane originalFrame, Plane destinationFrame)or
Rotation(Plane plane0, Plane plane1)This allows for instance to superimpose two faces of two meshes like in the following example:
The code to reproduce this example is reported below. In the first part, we create two meshes:
// FIRST MESH
Mesh mesh1 = Mesh.CreateBox(5, 4, 7);
design1.Entities.Add(mesh1, 0, Color.Red);
// SECOND MESH
Mesh mesh2 = Mesh.CreateBox(4, 3, 2);
// we transform mesh2 and move it away from mesh1
mesh2.Rotate(.1, Vector3D.AxisX);
mesh2.Rotate(.5, Vector3D.AxisY);
mesh2.Rotate(1, Vector3D.AxisZ);
mesh2.Translate(new Vector3D(4, 3, 12));
design1.Entities.Add((Mesh)mesh2.Clone(), Color.Blue);
Then we define a transformation that aligns the lower face of mesh2 with the upper face of mesh1. This can be done in three different ways:
- Using Align3D and the vertices
Transformation rotoTranslation = new Align3D(mesh2.Vertices[0], mesh1.Vertices[4],
mesh2.Vertices[1], mesh1.Vertices[5],
mesh2.Vertices[3], mesh1.Vertices[7]);
- Using Align3D and the planes
// plane of the upper face of mesh1
Plane plane1 = new Plane(mesh1.Vertices[4], mesh1.Vertices[5], mesh1.Vertices[7]);
// plane of the lower face of mesh2
Plane plane2 = new Plane(mesh2.Vertices[0], mesh2.Vertices[1], mesh2.Vertices[3]);
Transformation rotoTranslation = new Align3D(plane2, plane1);
- Or using Rotation and the planes
// plane of the upper face of mesh1
Plane plane1 = new Plane(mesh1.Vertices[4], mesh1.Vertices[5], mesh1.Vertices[7]);
// plane of the lower face of mesh2
Plane plane2 = new Plane(mesh2.Vertices[0], mesh2.Vertices[1], mesh2.Vertices[3]);
Transformation rotoTranslation = new Transformation();
rotoTranslation.Rotation(plane2, plane1);
And finally, we apply the transformation to mesh2:
mesh2.TransformBy(rotoTranslation);
design1.Entities.Add((Mesh)mesh2.Clone(), Color.Blue);
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