Teigha BIM supports external parameter definitions, which are entities stored in external text files and not included in project/family documents but can be imported into documents. Parameter elements of the ParamElemExternal class store the guid of an external parameter definition.
Creating Textured Materials using Helper Classes for Assets in Teigha BIM
Teigha BIM supports fourteen default materials: Ceramic, Concrete, Generic, Glazing, Hardwood, MasonryCMU, Metal, MetallicPaint, Mirror, PlasticVinyl, SolidGlass, Stone, WallPaint and Water. Each material has a rendering asset, which contains material rendering properties, such as color, finishing style, bumping and so on. Textures can also be defined for a material.
Almost all default materials support textures — textures are not only for Metal, Mirror and Water materials. A texture can be used as a ‘skin’ of an element, and it’s also possible to define finishing effects for the material using bitmap files. To access or set up textures of a material, the appropriate properties should be used. For example, a texture can be set for the Stone material in the ‘stone_color’ property, but also the Stone material has ‘stone_pattern_map’ which defines a finishing style of the material.
Using Collada Import with Teigha BIM
COLLADA is short for Collaborative Design Activity. DAE files are based on the XML COLLADA format, and they are used by various graphics programs to exchange digital assets under the same format. Each file consists of a set of elements that are images, lights, geometries, effects, materials, cameras, etc.
Working with .sat and .sab Files in Teigha
Teigha uses .sat and .sab files to define 3D geometry of 3D entities (OdDbRegion, OdDbBody, OdDb3dSolid, OdDbSurface, etc.).
Creating Textured Materials using Helper Classes for Assets in Teigha BIM
Teigha BIM supports fourteen default materials: Ceramic, Concrete, Generic, Glazing, Hardwood, MasonryCMU, Metal, MetallicPaint, Mirror, PlasticVinyl, SolidGlass, Stone, WallPaint and Water. Each material has a rendering asset, which contains material rendering properties, such as color, finishing style, bumping and so on. Textures can also be defined for a material.
Teigha Civil’s 3D Feature Line Entity
There are two ways of drawing feature lines: by 2D polyline (OdDbPolyline object) and by 3D polyline (OdDb3dPolyline object). The difference in elevation values affects all site feature edge points. If all elevations are equal, the feature line will be drawn via an OdDbPolyline entity, else via OdDb3dPolyline. In the 2D case, OdDbPolyline consists of eLine and eArc edges of type (AECCSiteEdge::Type). The OdDb3dPolyline entity consists of eLine types only and for arcs interpolation purposes uses tessellation (short, straight line segments) based on explode functionalities.
Using the OdPrcCreate Example
The main Teigha PRC example for “how to create” is the OdPrcCreate example located in the \Prc\Examples\OdPrcCreate folder. The release package includes a prebuilt OdPrcCreate.exe application in the “exe” folder. Also a project file is available in the release packages (for Microsoft® Windows®). So it is possible to start the prebuilt application or debug it using Microsoft Visual Studio.
Attaching and Validating Digital Signatures for .dwg Files
With the new release of Teigha 4.3.1, you can attach digital signatures to your .dwg files and validate a .dwg file’s digital signature. A digital signature indicates who the file came from and the file’s state when the digital signature was created, and validation confirms this information.