Cleans up a series of break operations and creates the resulting pieces.
This operator is used to finish the process of breaking a piece of geometry. It uses the groups and connected pieces created by the Break operator to output a set of disconnected pieces.
Note
If your broken object is made into a dynamic object, you do not need to append an assemble because one will be added automatically.
The assemble node cleans up the geometry. The following screen captures show what the geometry looks like before using the assemble tool, and after.
Parameters
| Group | The group that will be finalized. Ideally this should encompass all geometry that has been affected by a Break operator. |
| Inside Group | The group name corresponding to the inside faces created by the preceding break operators. This name should remain consistent for all breaks affecting the same geometry. |
| Output Prefix | The prefix applied to the name attribute and names of the groups created by the operator. For example, an object broken into 3 parts and given an Output
Prefix of |
| Piece Attribute | An integer primitive attribute with the piece number will be created storing which piece the primitive belongs to. |
| Create Groups | Create a new group for each piece. |
| Create Name Attribute | Create a primitive attribute called “name” identifying primitives belonging to each piece. |
| Connect Inside Edges | Whether the inside faces of the broken geometry will be connected to the outside faces. When enabled, the geometry of each output piece will be fully connected. Tip Disabling this option can help create the illusion that the geometry is not actually broken, since the outside surface of the object remains unchanged. |
| Cusp Edges | Whether the edges of the output geometry will be cusped. Ideally, enabling this option will cusp the edges between the outside and inside faces of the broken object. However, here the cusp will be applied to all acute angles in the geometry, not just the intersections between the cutting surfaces and the object. Tip This is another option designed to hide the appearance of fracture lines in the broken object. However, Cusp Edges should only be used for smooth geometry with no acute angles, or for objects that are going to be cusped anyway. |
Examples that use this node
| Example for | Example name | |
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| RBD Glue Object | BlendSolverWithRBDGlue | Load | Launch |
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| RBD Pin Constraint | Chainlinks | Load | Launch |
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| Voronoi Fracture Solver | FractureExamples | Load | Launch |
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| Dop Import | PointBasedRBD | Load | Launch |
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