VS:OffsetPolyN: Difference between revisions

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Offsets a polygon or polyline. Uses Parasolid to do it. Equivalent of Voronoy based OffsetPoly.

FUNCTION OffsetPolyN(
           h                :HANDLE;
           offsetDistance   :REAL;
           smoothCorners    :BOOLEAN) : HANDLE;

def vs.OffsetPolyN(h, offsetDistance, smoothCorners):
    return HANDLE

(Orso, 2011): It outputs a polygon (Type 5), polyline (Type 21) or a group (Type 11), according to the offset geometry and eventual intersections.

OffsetPolyN fails:

on holes, they are ignored
used from inside plug-in objects: deselects the object instance on drawing at each run, compelling the user to re-select (tested from VW 2011 through 2014, also in 2016).

Availability: from Vectorworks 2009

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 OffsetPolyN fails:
 * on holes, they are ignored
-* used from inside plug-in objects: deselects the object instance on drawing at each run, compelling the user to re-select (tested from VW 2011 through 2014).
+* used from inside plug-in objects: deselects the object instance on drawing at each run, compelling the user to re-select (tested from VW 2011 through 2014, also in 2016).
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