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[Andreas Fabri <>]

On 15/04/2010 21:15, 张知竹 wrote:
> Hi, I am a newbie to CGAL, and I am just reading the manual. During
> reading the manual, I know CGAL can build many geometry, but I have a
> question whether CGAL can built geometry like cylinder or cone? I
> didn't find the description in the manual, if it can build such
> geometry, can you tell me how to build? Thanks a lot ~
> 

Hello,

no we don't that, and for the simple reason that we do not
have any higher level algorithm that could operate on it.
Even the 3D Boolean operations are limited to objects
described by polyhedral surfaces.

Best regards,

andreas