Available Devicegen Operations

This page lists the available constructive operations of qtcad.builder.Builder along with visualizations of their effects.

Builder.pad_volume(group: GroupSpecifier, thickness: float, padding_suffix: str = '_padding', noclip: bool = False, polygonize: bool = True) → Self

[🏗️ Operation] Add a padding layer of thickness around the volumes in volume group with name group_name. The newly created padding volume will be named group_name + padding_suffix and clipped horizontally by the currently selected shapes unless noclip is True.

Parameters:

• group – The group(s) to pad. See get_group for details on the allowed types.

• thickness – The padding thickness.

• padding_suffix – Suffix to append to the group name for the new volume.

• noclip – If True, no horizontal clipping will occur. Default is False.

• polygonize – If True, the newly created volumes will be recreated from their hull meshes to avoid problems with curved OpenCASCADE solids (default is True).

Before the padding operation.

After the padding operation. Note that the upper volume was padded with noclip=True, whereas the lower one was clipped to the footprint of the device.

As above, but with the padding volume hidden.

Code to produce the figure.

../../../examples/padding/generate_mesh.py