[cgma-dev] get_graphics for OpenCascade?

[Tim Tautges]

On 08/15/2013 09:55 AM, David Thompson wrote:
>> ... As for watertight triangulations from the faceter, for single volumes, from ACIS, the faceting is generally watertight (though the facets from separate surfaces don't share points).  But for multiple volumes sharing surfaces, the faceting often won't be watertight.
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> That all sounds OK.
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>> ... There's a tool in MeshKit that does make facet models coming from CAD watertight, and has shown good robustness even for huge models.  ...
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> If it's fast, that would be great. If it's slow and generating a high-quality mesh, that's probably not what we're looking for here (but would be using elsewhere).
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IIRC, it's fast enough even for large models.  See http://www.imr.sandia.gov/papers/imr19/Smith2B.3.pdf.

- tim

> 	Thanks,
> 	David
>

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