Add to_polyface methods to Sphere, Cone and Cylinder

[chriswmackey]

In order to make use of the Sphere, Cone, and Cylinder objects within honeybee workflows, we will need some way to translate these objects to approximations of planar geometry for simulation engines that do not natively support Sphere, Cone, and Cylinder primitives (eg. EnergyPlus). If we can add a to_polyface methods to each of these objects that can return such planar approximations, this should allow for this to happen with ease. I imagine that such a method could have input arguments to specify the number of times the "circle" contained within each one is subdivided and we could have some coarse default like 8.

[santiagogaray]

Hi @chriswmackey
I was wondering if this project may have priority over others. I do have some questions before tackling it if we go ahead with it.

[chriswmackey]

Hi @santiagogaray ,

If you are asking what would be most immediately helpful, cleaning up the documentation of the other repos would be at the top. The sooner that we have that, the sooner other developers can make use of the other Python packages ... and the sooner that you can send us the invoice for your subcontract and we can process it. Realistically, we won't be able to make use of the Sphere, Cone and Cylinder objects in honeybee for another few months after we have gotten some other critical things in place.

[santiagogaray]

Understood @chriswmackey, will start with the documentation cleanup next!

[Erwin-T]

Hi @chriswmackey
Can I help with this issue by contributing code for the specified task?