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Examples of interacting with the nTop Core library from C#. Note: At present these do not function with *nix environments.

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Setup

These examples require .NET 7 on the host system. If you are working from a Unix-like environment you will need to modify the variable _dllLocation in CoreWrapper/ImplicitBody.cs to point at the location of the shared object file. All three examples share a common CoreWrapper project, which provides the P/Invoke bindings to the native nTop Core library.

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Mesher

This is a simple mesh generation implementation using marching cubes which highlights use of the ntop_core_query_field and ntop_core_query_bounding_box. To run it from the examples/dotnet directory: 
dotnet run --project Mesher/Mesher.csproj
It will output the location of the STL which you can load in the viewer of your choice. Note that the implementation may not produce closed or non-self-intersecting meshes. This is just to highlight how you may integrate nTop Core into your workflow. For a more production-ready implementation consider using OpenVDB. See the full source: Mesher.

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Slicer

This produces images of the contours of a slice of the median axis-aligned plane of the implicit body. This highlights use of ntop_core_query_contours. To run it from the examples/dotnet directory: 
dotnet run --project Slicer/Slicer.csproj
This will output slice.png in this directory. See the full source: Slicer.

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Volume

This calculates the volume of an implicit body using a volumetric calculation. To run it from the examples/dotnet directory: 
dotnet run --project Volume/Volume.csproj
See the full source: Volume.