geom_overlaps.C File Reference

Detailed Description

Browse the overlaps and extrusions of a geometry, and look at them in 3D.

The overlap check runs once, over the whole geometry, before the browser starts serving – TGeoVolume::CheckOverlaps() is recursive, so checking volumes one at a time as somebody clicks around both repeats the work and costs seconds per click. After the single pass the table is instant.

Pick a row and the 3D view shows that overlap and nothing else: the two volumes (red and yellow, semi-transparent) and the points on the offending surface (cyan). An overlap belongs to a logical volume, so if that volume is placed several times the pair is drawn at every placement.

 
#include <ROOT/REveElement.hxx>
#include <ROOT/REveGeoOverlaps.hxx>
#include <ROOT/REveManager.hxx>
#include <ROOT/REveScene.hxx>
#include <ROOT/REveViewer.hxx>
 
#include "TFile.h"
#include "TGeoManager.h"
#include "TKey.h"
 
#include <cstring>
#include <iostream>
 
using namespace ROOT::Experimental;
 
TGeoManager *load_geometry(const char *fname)
{
   TFile *f = TFile::Open(fname);
   if (!f || f->IsZombie()) {
      std::cerr << "cannot open " << fname << "\n";
      return nullptr;
   }
   TIter next(f->GetListOfKeys());
   while (auto *key = (TKey *)next())
      if (!std::strcmp(key->GetClassName(), "TGeoManager"))
         return dynamic_cast<TGeoManager *>(key->ReadObj());
   std::cerr << "no TGeoManager in " << fname << "\n";
   return nullptr;
}
 
void geom_overlaps(const char *fname = "http://root.cern/files/cms.root", double precision = 0.001)
{
   auto *geom = load_geometry(fname);
   if (!geom)
      return;
 
   auto *eveMng = REveManager::Create();
   eveMng->AllowMultipleRemoteConnections(false, false);
 
   auto *table = new REveGeoOverlapTable("Overlaps", "Overlaps and extrusions");
 
   // Before anything is served: the scan mutates TGeoManager global state and runs
   // its own thread pool, so it must not race the client threads.
   std::cout << ">>> checking overlaps (precision " << precision << " cm) ...\n";
   table->ScanOverlaps(geom, precision);
   std::cout << ">>> found " << table->GetNumOverlaps() << " overlaps\n";
 
   // the list lives in its own scene, bound to a viewer named GeoOverlapTable --
   // that name is what picks the client-side view
   auto *tableScene = eveMng->SpawnNewScene("Overlap List");
   tableScene->AddElement(table);
   auto *tableViewer = eveMng->SpawnNewViewer("GeoOverlapTable", "");
   tableViewer->AddScene(tableScene);
 
   // the shapes of whichever row is selected go into the event scene
   eveMng->GetEventScene()->AddElement(table->GetVizHolder());
 
   // Overlaps can sit far from the origin, so look at and orbit around the shapes
   // themselves; with the default origin center they swing out of frame on rotation.
   eveMng->GetDefaultViewer()->SetCameraCenter(REveViewer::kCameraCenterBBox);
 
   eveMng->Show();
}

Author

Alja Mrak-Tadel

Definition in file geom_overlaps.C.