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BrepFaceOrientationIsReversed Property

true if face orientation is opposite of natural surface orientation.

Namespace:  Rhino.Geometry
Assembly:  RhinoCommon (in RhinoCommon.dll)
Since: 5.0
Syntax
public bool OrientationIsReversed { get; set; }

Property Value

Type: Boolean
Examples
using Rhino;
using Rhino.Input.Custom;
using Rhino.DocObjects;
using Rhino.Commands;

namespace examples_cs
{
  public class NormalDirectionOfBrepFaceCommand : Command
  {
    public override string EnglishName { get { return "csDetermineNormalDirectionOfBrepFace"; } }

    protected override Result RunCommand(RhinoDoc doc, RunMode mode)
    {
      // select a surface
      var gs = new GetObject();
      gs.SetCommandPrompt("select surface");
      gs.GeometryFilter = ObjectType.Surface;
      gs.DisablePreSelect();
      gs.SubObjectSelect = false;
      gs.Get();
      if (gs.CommandResult() != Result.Success)
        return gs.CommandResult();
      // get the selected face
      var face = gs.Object(0).Face();
      if (face == null)
        return Result.Failure;

      // pick a point on the surface.  Constain
      // picking to the face.
      var gp = new GetPoint();
      gp.SetCommandPrompt("select point on surface");
      gp.Constrain(face, false);
      gp.Get();
      if (gp.CommandResult() != Result.Success)
        return gp.CommandResult();

      // get the parameters of the point on the
      // surface that is clesest to gp.Point()
      double u, v;
      if (face.ClosestPoint(gp.Point(), out u, out v))
      {
        var direction = face.NormalAt(u, v);
        if (face.OrientationIsReversed)
          direction.Reverse();
        RhinoApp.WriteLine(
          string.Format(
            "Surface normal at uv({0:f},{1:f}) = ({2:f},{3:f},{4:f})", 
            u, v, direction.X, direction.Y, direction.Z));
      }
      return Result.Success;
    }
  }
}
Python
import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs
from scriptcontext import *
import Rhino
from Rhino.Commands import Result

def RunCommand():
  # select a surface
  gs = Rhino.Input.Custom.GetObject()
  gs.SetCommandPrompt("select surface")
  gs.GeometryFilter = Rhino.DocObjects.ObjectType.Surface
  gs.DisablePreSelect()
  gs.SubObjectSelect = False
  gs.Get()
  if gs.CommandResult() != Result.Success:
    return gs.CommandResult()

  # get the selected face
  face = gs.Object(0).Face()
  if face == None:
    return

  # pick a point on the surface.  Constain
  # picking to the face.
  gp = Rhino.Input.Custom.GetPoint()
  gp.SetCommandPrompt("select point on surface")
  gp.Constrain(face, False)
  gp.Get()
  if gp.CommandResult() != Result.Success:
    return gp.CommandResult()

  # get the parameters of the point on the
  # surface that is clesest to gp.Point()
  b, u, v = face.ClosestPoint(gp.Point())
  if b:
    dir = face.NormalAt(u, v)
    if face.OrientationIsReversed:
      dir.Reverse()
    print "Surface normal at uv({0:f},{1:f}) = ({2:f},{3:f},{4:f})".format(
        u, v, dir.X, dir.Y, dir.Z)

if __name__ == "__main__":
  RunCommand()
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