Purpose

graphite-texel-plugins is a suite of plug-ins offering tools for inspecting and interacting with tet/hex meshes.

Prerequisites

• Graphite >= v3-1.8.8
• C++ >= 17
• Git

To get the plug-in suite up and running, you first need to get and compile Graphite. To do this, please follow the instructions on the official Graphite github: https://github.com/BrunoLevy/GraphiteThree. Note that you should follow the instructions for Compiling sources whether you're running Windows, Mac or Linux:

• https://github.com/BrunoLevy/GraphiteThree/wiki/compiling_Windows
• https://github.com/BrunoLevy/GraphiteThree/wiki/compiling_Linux

Installation

Once the graphite installation is complete:

1. Go to the plugins/OGF directory
2. Clone this repository git clone https://github.com/ultimaille/graphite-texel-plugins
3. Go to the root directory of Graphite
4. Re-configure graphite project following your OS instructions
5. Re-compile graphite !

If everything goes well, you should see the following messages printed on your console after graphite starts up:

Loading module: Inspect
Loading module: Interactions

Update

The procedure for upgrading is the same as for installation, you just need to replace the step 2 (repository cloning) by a git pull command.

What's inside ?

Tools

Move points

Move points in a more friendly way.

View lace

Extract & view lace: visualize a hex lace by selecting a cell facet.

View layer

Extract & view layer: visualize a hex layer by selecting a cell edge.

View ring

Extract & view n-ring: visualize neighborhood of a cell in a volume mesh.

Commands

• Conditional cell filter: filter cells by attribute value using a comparator