[cgma-dev] copying iGeom entities in occ...

[Tim Tautges]

Maybe so.  Would help to get a word from cubit people on this...

- tim

On 08/19/2014 09:56 AM, shriwise wrote:
> Agreed, but the function seems to be set up for this scenario as its only behaviour without consideration for a pure
> copy operation.
>
> Patrick
>
> On 08/15/2014 05:23 PM, Tim Tautges wrote:
>> One case I can think of where this happens is in preparation for certain boolean operations (e.g. subtract with option
>> to keep the original), you don't want the attributes on the body being subtracted from the other.
>>
>> - tim
>>
>> On 08/06/2014 02:10 PM, Paul Wilson wrote:
>>> Hi Patrick,
>>>
>>> On 08/06/2014 09:08 AM, Patrick Shriwise wrote:
>>>> As for the topic at hand, my naive opinion is that attributes on the original should never be removed and transferring
>>>> these attributes should be optional in both cases. I can't think of a scenario in which you would expect data do be
>>>> deleted from the original upon copying it. It sounds like this may be the case, but its buried pretty deep? Is that
>>>> right, Paul?
>>> I agree.  There must be something more complex happening that we don't see/understand.  It seems strange to ever delete
>>> the attributes from the original entity when making a copy.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>
>

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