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Hello,<br>
<br>
There has been some discussion in a <a
href="https://bitbucket.org/fathomteam/cgm/pull-request/8/igeom-updates">pull
request</a> that I thought would be better brought to the mailing
list.<br>
<br>
This was initially motivated by the realization that iGeom was
inconsistent in returning a RefVolume vs a Body in different calls.
Thus, two entity handles that referred to the same volume in space
would not be detected as the same volume.<br>
<br>
Faced with two choices - refer only to RefVolumes or refer only to
Body's - we settled on referring only to refVolume's in the iGeom
interface. However, this breaks the ability to refer to a Body such
as my be returned by uniting two volumes that are disjoint - which
is part of the interface.<br>
<br>
So.... perhaps we need to only deal with Body in the iGeom
interface. Perhaps Patrick can offer some of the downsides to this
approach?<br>
<br>
Paul<br>
<br>
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