On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 20:11 +0000, Andy Pugh wrote: > 2009/12/16 Stuart Stevenson <[email protected]>: > > > Unless some recent development has added some surfacing capability most > > CAM programmers will find this package sorely lacking in geometry creation. > > Manifold geometry does not exist in the BRLCAD world. > > This might have changed, the web page says: > "BRL-CAD supports a great variety of geometric representations > including an extensive set of traditional CSG primitive implicit > solids such as boxes, ellipsoids, cones, and tori, as well as explicit > solids made from closed collections of Uniform B-Spline Surfaces, > Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline (NURBS) surfaces, n-Manifold Geometry > (NMG), and purely faceted mesh geometry. All geometric objects may be > combined using boolean set-theoretic CSG operations including union, > intersection, and difference." > > But I confess to being so scared by the idea of modelling at the > command line that I have not looked any further. >
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