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["Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)" <>]

Costas Tsirogiannis wrote:
>  Greetings,
>
>   I'm running an algorithm on a Polyhedron_3 object. At some point 
> during the execution
> the algorithm decides to split a (half)edge h into two pieces.
>
> Consider the vertex v that is created on (what used to be) the interior 
> of h.
> I want  the algorithm then to fix the coordinates of  v->point() to some 
> specific ones.
>
> How can this be done?  There is the spilt_edge member function of the 
> polyhedron but
> this actually makes v to be the copy of some pre-existing vertex.
> The polyhedron vertex class does not have either any "set_point()" 
> member function.
>
> Can I do something with the de-constified version of vertex->point()?
Hello Costas,

I think vertex->point()=Your_new_point; should work.

S.



>  
> thanks in advance
>
> Constantinos