[cgma-dev] r3517 - cgm/trunk/itaps

Jason Kraftcheck kraftche at cae.wisc.edu
Mon Feb 1 17:37:56 CST 2010


Steve Jackson wrote:
> 
> On Feb 1, 2010, at 16:08 , James Porter wrote:
>>
>> Would using RefVolumes exclusively be limiting in any way? My
>> understanding is that a Body is a collection of RefVolumes, but if
>> that's not helpful (or if in practice, our Bodies only have one
>> RefVolume), then I think it makes more sense to return RefVolumes
>> everywhere.
> 
> I think it would be a problem for me.  I have code that uses
> iGeom_uniteEnts(), and currently, this function allows me to unite
> disjoint volumes into a single EntityHandle.  My code would break if
> uniteEnts() was required to create a single volume.

Would it break if iGeom_uniteEnts were changed to pass back the disjoint
volumes as a list?

- jason


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