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[Dennis Endt <>]

Dennis Endt schrieb:
> Monique Teillaud schrieb:
>   
>> If you are lucky (= your points really don't belong to a plane
>> parallel to any xy,xz,yz plane), you will get the same triangulation
>> three times, which is not what you want (I guess so). Yhen using one
>> of these random traits should give you what you want.
>> If you are less lucky, one of the computationa will crash. Then, use
>> one of the other two.
>> I'm afraid that's the best you can do if you don't know anything about
>> your data, except the fact that they are almost coplanar.
>>
>> best,
>>     Monique Teillaud
>>     
>
> Hi,
>
> thanks so far for your help.
>
> My last question is:
> How can I check if a computational will crash? What is the best method
> for this?
>
> I tried to use is_valid(), but this didn`t worked. Is it enough to check
> for the number_of_vertices != 0 of a fassade?
>
> Best,
> Dennis
>
>   
Sorry,

I mean number_of_faces() instead of number_of_vertices().