As noted in the recent article posted specifically about converting geometry [1], a LOT of effort is going into making conversions work more robustly. All of the repairs to date to our existing NMG/BoT support are (fortunately) fixes to low-level LIBRT and LIBBN routines and have not required changes to our converters.
[1] http://brlcad.org/d/node/82 With the new conversion.sh script, you can actually get a report for your own geometry that will tell you which objects succeed and which do not. The usage is very simple and their are built-in instructions (conversion.sh help). We're using that script to fix all of the observed problems with our sample geometry as well as running the script on loads of real-world target descriptions. We're presently at a failure rate of about 3% on our sample geometry and about 7% on more detailed models. Unfortunately, the problems get a lot harder the closer we get to a 0% failure rate, but that is the goal. That's literally going to take months of effort, so keep an eye out and we'll keep reporting progress. Cheers! Sean On Dec 10, 2010, at 8:50 AM, Clifford Yapp wrote: > It's the latter - we're working on improving the routines, so > improvements will show up in the existing tools (in fact, right now > that's the primary way we test them.) > > Cliff > > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Tom Browder <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Have the g-xxx.c conversion program series been updated to use the >> improved conversion functions, or are the improvements inherent to >> them because the same but improvrd functions are being used? >> >> Thanks, >> >> -Tom > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- > _______________________________________________ > BRL-CAD Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-users
