[Nexus] NXgeometry lacking documentation

Wintersberger, Eugen eugen.wintersberger at desy.de
Mon Nov 19 10:48:16 GMT 2012


Ok - I will have a look on this. It is rather difficult to do this job
with out a proper documentation of the geometric primitives ;). 
Thanks for your fast response Pete. 

cu 
 Eugen

On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 03:52 -0600, Pete Jemian wrote:
> I believe it is really missing.  The content of discussions was not 
> rendered into recorded text.
> 
> Pete
> 
> On 11/19/2012 3:24 AM, Wintersberger, Eugen wrote:
> > Hi folks
> >    I am actually working on a complete Nexus file for P08 here at DESY
> > and encountered a problem with NXgeometry in NXaperture when trying to
> > describe a slit.
> > Although the NXDL definition of NXgeometry describes several primitive
> > objects (nxbox, nxcylinder, and so on) there is no documentation
> > available how this objects are initially placed in the laboratory or
> > their parent coordinate frame. Furtheremore, there are no sketches in
> > the documentation of how this objects exactly look like and what their
> > 'size' parameters mean exactly.
> > Is this documentation really missing or have I been just too stupid to
> > find it.
> > If it is missing, I would volunteer to do the work.
> >
> > regards
> >    Eugen
> >
> >
> >
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