> On 7 Sep 2017, at 12:39, Jeremy Theler <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > In demos/boolean/ there are two files named compsolid.geo and > compsolid2.geo where OCCT's General Fuse Operator > https://www.opencascade.com/doc/occt-7.2.0/overview/html/occt_user_guides__boolean_operations.html > is called through Gmsh's BooleanFragments command. > > Now, even though the files are called “compsolid” the BooleanFragments > command does not return a CompSolid, but just a Compound. > For > example, FreeCAD can perform a similar action with the “Boolean > Fragments” tool > https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Part_BooleanFragments > and has an option to return either a compound or a compsolid. > > Will you guys at Gmsh also add an option to really return a compsolid > or will this behavior be the final one?
Gmsh does not expose these concepts... Internally Gmsh uses an abstract interface to only 4 entity types: GVertex (points), GEdge (curves), GFace (surfaces) and GRegion (volumes). All the algorithms are built on these simple types. > > Thanks > -- > jeremy theler > www.seamplex.com > > > _______________________________________________ > gmsh mailing list > [email protected] > http://onelab.info/mailman/listinfo/gmsh -- Prof. Christophe Geuzaine University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine Free software: http://gmsh.info | http://getdp.info | http://onelab.info _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing list [email protected] http://onelab.info/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
