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keithsloan52
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CGAL

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I notice a lot of prospective BRL-CAD GsoC projects are involving CGAL, some examples involve surface mesh and nef_polyhedron. Now OpenSCAD libraries are starting (or have for some time) using a lot of polyhedron's and there seem to be moves to support of rounding the edges of polyhedrons. On importing OpenSCAD csg files with polyhedron's i.e. LOTS of points is very slow.

Now from a quick read it looks look like CGAL also using Coin3D/Inventor and Qt. Now if one built a copy of FreeCAD with CGAL could one have the main FreeCAD window display Brep Objects with OCCT and New FreeCAD object types with meshes and nef_polyheron info?
  • Could you mix both on the same display window.
  • What about determining which object is in front another i.e Object depth
  • What about View handling, colour etc
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