Hi,
I've run into a problem with a simple application which I have been unable to solve using documentation and previously posted threads on the subject. I am trying to load two .sat files, subtract them, and then save the "blank" to an output .sat file. I kept getting 1KB size files when using subtract, so to narrow down the problem, I took out the subtract code to test my save code. Even opening a .sat file and immediately saving it to a new file results in files that cannot be loaded in the RADF viewer - even with the same file size as the original file. This means I have two problems: 1) Saving a file somehow results in unloadable file, and 2)my Boolean subtract is probably not coded properly to save the "blank" from the operation - I think this is probably in the fact that I lose the "target" object out of the target entity list during boolean and need to add it back in before saving?
Here's my code:
Note: my function do_sub simply calls api_subtract in a new scope, and check_result is my own function that prints error data and where it happened in my own code.
Note2: this code compiles and runs with no errors - hence my confusion.
Note3: I already tried opening the out file as "wt" instead of "w." Both result in unreadable files.
//header stuff, initialization, unlock, etc taken out for brevity...
//argv[0] = ACIS_test, argv[1] = <target>, argv[2] = <tool>, argv[3] = <output>
if (argc != 4) {printf("Error: not enough arguments. Use acis_test <target> <tool> <output>\n");}
//target
ENTITY_LIST & target_entity_list = ENTITY_LIST::ENTITY_LIST();
char * target_key = argv[1];
FILE * target_fileptr = fopen(target_key, "r");
if (target_fileptr) {
result = api_restore_entity_list(target_fileptr, TRUE, target_entity_list);
fclose(target_fileptr);
check_result(result, "loading target");
} else printf("Failed to load target file.\n");
//tool
ENTITY_LIST & tool_entity_list = ENTITY_LIST::ENTITY_LIST();
char * tool_key = argv[2];
FILE * tool_fileptr = fopen(tool_key, "r");
if (target_fileptr) {
result = api_restore_entity_list(tool_fileptr, TRUE, tool_entity_list);
fclose(tool_fileptr);
check_result(result, "loading tool");
} else printf("Failed to load tool file.\n");
//save stuff
char * out_key = argv[3];
FileInfo fileinfo;
fileinfo.set_units(1.0);
fileinfo.set_product_id("xxxxxx"); //not really xxxx, changed for identifying information
result = api_set_file_info((FileId | FileUnits), fileinfo);
check_result(result, "setting file info");
result = api_set_int_option("sequence_save_files", 1);
check_result(result, "setting file info (int option)");
AcisOptions *ao = NULL;
//boolean (tool, "blank" (target), AcisOptions)
BODY *tool = (BODY*)(tool_entity_list[0]);
BODY *target = (BODY*)(target_entity_list[0]);
// do_sub commented out so as to test api_save_entity_list
//result = do_sub(tool, target, ao);
//check_result(result, "api_subtract");
//save
FILE * out_file = fopen(out_key, "w");
if (out_file) {
result = api_save_entity_list(out_file, TRUE, target_entity_list);
fclose(out_file);
check_result(result, "saving output");
} else printf("Error opening out_file");
//stop modeller, terminate components, etc...
