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[Andreas Fabri <>]

Christoph Conrad wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> thank you very much for giving me that very helpful advices.
>
> Both ways seem to work, the simple test program is compilable, that is a
> big step forward. It reads one file with test data, another one gives
> some problems, but that i must investigate a little bit first, maybe
> "triangles" consisting of three identical points.

Other "typical" problems are when you have surfaces that selfintersect,
or if you have faces with more than three vertices. They MUST be coplanar
then and not only almost coplanar. A solution to the latter problem is
to triangulate the faces first.

best regards,

andreas

> Kind regards,
> Christoph