build_cube.cc

penMesh is a generic and efficient data structure for representing and manipulating polygonal meshes

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//   $Revision: 1.2 $
//   $Date: 2005-12-21 14:05:30 $
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#include <iostream>
// -------------------- OpenMesh
#include <OpenMesh/Core/IO/MeshIO.hh>
#include <OpenMesh/Core/Mesh/Types/PolyMesh_ArrayKernelT.hh>


// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

typedef OpenMesh::PolyMesh_ArrayKernelT<>  MyMesh;


// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Build a simple cube and write it to std::cout
  
int main()
{
  MyMesh mesh;

  // generate vertices

  MyMesh::VertexHandle vhandle[8];

  vhandle[0] = mesh.add_vertex(MyMesh::Point(-1, -1,  1));
  vhandle[1] = mesh.add_vertex(MyMesh::Point( 1, -1,  1));
  vhandle[2] = mesh.add_vertex(MyMesh::Point( 1,  1,  1));
  vhandle[3] = mesh.add_vertex(MyMesh::Point(-1,  1,  1));
  vhandle[4] = mesh.add_vertex(MyMesh::Point(-1, -1, -1));
  vhandle[5] = mesh.add_vertex(MyMesh::Point( 1, -1, -1));
  vhandle[6] = mesh.add_vertex(MyMesh::Point( 1,  1, -1));
  vhandle[7] = mesh.add_vertex(MyMesh::Point(-1,  1, -1));


  // generate (quadrilateral) faces

  std::vector<MyMesh::VertexHandle>  face_vhandles;

  face_vhandles.clear();
  face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[0]);
  face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[1]);
  face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[2]);
  face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[3]);
  mesh.add_face(face_vhandles);
 
  face_vhandles.clear();
  face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[7]);
  face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[6]);
  face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[5]);
  face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[4]);
  mesh.add_face(face_vhandles);

  face_vhandles.clear();
  face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[1]);
  face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[0]);
  face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[4]);
  face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[5]);
  mesh.add_face(face_vhandles);

  face_vhandles.clear();
  face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[2]);
  face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[1]);
  face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[5]);
  face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[6]);
  mesh.add_face(face_vhandles);

  face_vhandles.clear();
  face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[3]);
  face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[2]);
  face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[6]);
  face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[7]);
  mesh.add_face(face_vhandles);

  face_vhandles.clear();
  face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[0]);
  face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[3]);
  face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[7]);
  face_vhandles.push_back(vhandle[4]);
  mesh.add_face(face_vhandles);


  // write mesh to output.obj
  try
  {
    if ( !OpenMesh::IO::write_mesh(mesh, "output.off") )
    {
      std::cerr << "Cannot write mesh to file 'output.off'" << std::endl;
      return 1;
    }
  }
  catch( std::exception& x )
  {
    std::cerr << x.what() << std::endl;
    return 1;
  }

  return 0;
}