The SofaCarving plugin provides basic functionality for removing tetrahedra from a mesh. This can be used to simulate tissue destruction in medical simulations.

Loading the Plugin

To load the SofaCarving plugin, select SOFA-PLUGIN_SOFACARVING in your Cmake configuration. Reconfigure, generate and build.

CarvingManager

The plugin provides one component, the CarvingManager. When added to a scene, it automatically looks for a collision model that will acts as the tool from removing tetrahedra, and a surface model that will have its tetrahedra removed by the tool. If your scene has many possible collision or surface models, you can specify the ones that the CarvingManager will use by giving those components the tags CarvingTool and CarvingSurface. See the example scene SofaCarving/SimpleCarving.scn.