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About this Block

What it does: The Warp Cell Map to Body beta block warps a Cell Map to an Implicit Body’s inner surface by warping the Cell Map’s outer layer of vertices to conform to the surface. A maximum of one layer of cells outside of the body’s volume is a good starting point. The block is designed to conform an entire Cell Map to an Implicit Body. Conforming only a partial section of the Cell Map is not supported. Common uses: Used as input to the Periodic Lattice block when you require a conformal volume lattice with no trimmed or partial unit cells.
Tips
  • If your Cell Map contains many cells outside of the Implicit Body, first use the Trim Cell Map block to reduce the number of cells.
    • If you see a self-intersection warning, try using a different Fill Type in the Trim Cell Map block or changing your cell map generation parameters.
    • If the warning persists, or if the alternate Fill Type does not produce a desirable result, you can still create a lattice using the self-intersecting Cell Map.

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Example File

Download Example: Warp Cell Map to Body Example Screenshot Warps the Cell Map to the Target Body’s surface to achieve a conformal structure. The resulting cells will be warped to achieve conformality. To avoid large distortions, provide a Cell Map that is trimmed to the body with Trim Cell Map.

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Inputs

NameTypeDescription
BodyImplicit BodyImplicit body target for the warped cell map.
Cell mapCell MapCell map to be warped.

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Outputs

Type
Cell Map