Hi,
in my opinion there is no such MDL function available.
In fact the question is how the mentioned tool works internally, because a far as I know there is no general algorithm available that can unroll surface to a plane. I assume the surface is meshed internally (and it's why U and V tool parameters exist), the mesh is unrolled to 2D plane and from the border the final shape is created.
Unfortunately is is not a solution, because there is also no "mesh unroll function" in API (at least I was not able to find any). But mesh is commonly used object, so maybe you can use some geometry library like CGAL to unfold mesh into plane.
With regards,
Jan
in my opinion there is no such MDL function available.
In fact the question is how the mentioned tool works internally, because a far as I know there is no general algorithm available that can unroll surface to a plane. I assume the surface is meshed internally (and it's why U and V tool parameters exist), the mesh is unrolled to 2D plane and from the border the final shape is created.
Unfortunately is is not a solution, because there is also no "mesh unroll function" in API (at least I was not able to find any). But mesh is commonly used object, so maybe you can use some geometry library like CGAL to unfold mesh into plane.
With regards,
Jan