If you use the "ResizeContour" operation of the PolygonOperations-Addon I would expect that the resulting polygon is offsetted in all directions.
But clearly something terrible has happened here:
You see, the "start" point of the closed (!) polygon was not taken into account in the right manner. Now I have this corner chamfered away, gone for good.
The expected behaviour should be of course a new rectangle....
the problem is probably that when working with dicts, PolyOperations "ResizeContour" expects a polygon whose last point is not the same as the first.
Dict polygons always have to be closed, polylines can be open or closed. A closed polyline/polygon means the last point is not the same as the first (think of it as auto-closed). An open polyline has one more vertices than edges.
Péter Baksa Software Engineer, Library Graphisoft SE, Budapest
Hi, can You share Your object placed in a .pla file? No other way I can comment this problem. Polygon operations usually work fine. Maybe there is something wrong with the initial data. I have found some bugs in the add-on and example objects.
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the problem is probably that when working with dicts, PolyOperations "ResizeContour" expects a polygon whose last point is not the same as the first.
Dict polygons always have to be closed, polylines can be open or closed. A closed polyline/polygon means the last point is not the same as the first (think of it as auto-closed). An open polyline has one more vertices than edges.
Péter Baksa Software Engineer, Library Graphisoft SE, Budapest
Peter wrote:
the problem is probably that when working with dicts, PolyOperations "ResizeContour" expects a polygon whose last point is not the same as the first.
Dict polygons always have to be closed, polylines can be open or closed. A closed polyline/polygon means the last point is not the same as the first (think of it as auto-closed). An open polyline has one more vertices than edges.
Thank you Péter! That is exactly the right hint.
What I did was to insert a final new point which is coincident with the first point. When doing that the result will look like in my picture above.
Would be great if this info of auto-closing polygons could be a bit more prominent in the manual.
It was also quite unclear for me why there is a distinction made between polygons and polylines in the first place.
