It seems to me GEANT (I mean geant 3.21) never could do what you
are speaking about.
>
> What I am trying to do is to make a drawing of a light guide that is
> triangular on one side and circular on the other. The circular end is the
> narrow end of a cone; the other end of this cone just circumscribes the
> triangle. A TPGON unfortuately doesn't let you set the inner and outer
> radii for each point independently, otherwise it would be easy.
With C++ it is quite easy. For that you should take that TPGON class
as a base one and create your own class derived from that
Very likely you will have to provide only method to overload:
void TPCON::SetPoints(Float_t *buff)
This method is a few lines of code and looks as follows:
void TPCON::SetPoints(Float_t *buff)
{
//*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*Create PCON points*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
//*-* ==================
Int_t i, j;
Int_t indx = 0;
if (buff) {
Int_t n = GetNumberOfDivisions()+1;
//*-* We've to check whether the table does exist and create it
//*-* since fCoTab/fSiTab are not saved with any TShape::Streamer function
if (!fCoTab) MakeTableOfCoSin();
for (i = 0; i < fNz; i++)
{
for (j = 0; j < n; j++)
{
buff[indx++] = fRmin[i] * fCoTab[j];
buff[indx++] = fRmin[i] * fSiTab[j];
buff[indx++] = fDz[i];
}
for (j = 0; j < n; j++)
{
buff[indx++] = fRmax[i] * fCoTab[j];
buff[indx++] = fRmax[i] * fSiTab[j];
buff[indx++] = fDz[i];
}
}
}
I wonder any student can provide his/her own version.
>
> Anybody who knows how to solve this problem? Or is it simply not possible
> in Root since it is not an AutoCad clone?
It is simply possible because ROOT is C++ class library simply.
No AutoCad will allow you to make some sort of improvement
"by simple-mind user" though.
With my best regards,
Valery
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Gerco
>
> Dr. C.J.G. Onderwater
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