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The Legacy_circle Component

A geometric shape without effect on neutron, for instrument display purpose.

Identification

• Author: E. Farhi
• Origin: ILL
• Date: June 23rd 2009

Description

An inactive geometrical shape, for drawing purposes only.
It does not propagate neutron, nor interact.
Shape:
Geometric shape may be a cylinder, a sphere, a box or any other shape
box/plate:       xwidth x yheight x zdepth (thickness=0)
hollow box/plate:xwidth x yheight x zdepth and thickness>0
cylinder:        radius x yheight (thickness=0)
hollow cylinder: radius x yheight and thickness>0
sphere:          radius (yheight=0 thickness=0)
hollow sphere:   radius and thickness>0 (yheight=0)
any shape:       geometry=OFF file

The complex geometry option handles any closed non-convex polyhedra.
It computes the intersection points of the neutron ray with the object
transparently, so that it can be used like a regular sample object.
It supports the OFF and NOFF file format but not COFF (colored faces).
Such files may be generated from XYZ data using qhull/powercrust, and
viewed with geomview
The default size of the object depends of the OFF file data, but its
bounding box may be resized using xwidth,yheight and zdepth.

Example: Shape(radius=0.05, yheight=0.1)
Shape(geometry="socket.off")

Input parameters

Parameters in boldface are required; the others are optional.

Name	Unit	Description	Default
radius	m	Outer radius of sample in (x,z) plane	0

AT (	,	,		) RELATIVE		Generate to clipboard
ROTATED (	,	,		) RELATIVE

Links

• Source code for Legacy_circle.comp.
• Geomview and Object File Format (OFF)
• Powercrust/qhull

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