PointCloud.GetUnsafeLock

Public Class

Allows the developer to obtain unsafe pointers to the underlying unmanaged data structures of the PointCloud.

Namespace: Rhino.Geometry

Assembly: RhinoCommon (in RhinoCommon.dll)

**Since:**7.9

Syntax

public PointCloudUnsafeLock GetUnsafeLock(
  bool writable
)

Parameters

writable

Type:System.Boolean
true if user will need to write onto the structure. false otherwise.

Return Value

Type: PointCloudUnsafeLock
A lock that needs to be released.

Remarks

The lock implements the IDisposable interface, and one call of its Dispose. or

ReleaseUnsafeLock(PointCloudUnsafeLock)

will update the data structure as required. This can be achieved with a using statement (Using in Vb.Net).