BrepFacePackId Property

Property Value

Type: UInt32

PackId values assigned to brep faces are inheritied from the PackId values assigned to subd faces when a subd is converted into a brep. These faces are "trivially trimmed" which means the boundary of the face is identical to the boundary of the underlying surface. There are two types of face packs in a subd, quad grid packs and singleton packs. A subd quad grid pack is a set of subd quads that form a rectangular grid. A subd singleton pack is a single face, quad or n-gon, that is not part of a quad grid pack. There are three types of face packs in a brep created from a subd, grid packs, star packs and singleton packs. A brep "grid pack" comes from a rectangular grid of subd quads. A grid pack of brep faces can be converted into a single larger trivially trimmed brep face. A brep "star pack" of brep faces comes from a singel subd n-gon (n = 3, 5 or more). The star pack will have n faces with a star center vertex and shared edges radiating from the star center. A brep "singleton" pack comes from a single subd quad that could not be grouped into a larger subd quad grid pack.