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  • From: "Laurent Rineau (GeometryFactory)" <>
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  • Subject: Re: [cgal-discuss] non_manifold_tag
  • Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:33:37 +0100
  • Organization: GeometryFactory

On Tuesday 07 December 2010 09:30:18 Vincent wrote:
> I use the make_surface_mesh function to mesh a point cloud with normals.
> For testing I'm trying it on an open cylinder. I use the
> non_manifold_tag() because I don't want a manifold surface. Unfortunately,
> it returns manifold surfaces. I also did some tests on half a sphere and
> this also returns me a manifold surface.
>
> Is CGAL unable to process non-manifold surfaces? Or is there some "hidden"
> parameter to play with?

Can you show your code?


With CGAL::Non_manifold_tag() you should be able to get as the result a non
manifold surface. Actually what you really want is
CGAL::Manifold_with_boundary_tag(), so that you get a manifold surface with
boundaries.

--
Laurent Rineau, PhD
R&D Engineer at GeometryFactory http://www.geometryfactory.com/
Release Manager of the CGAL Project http://www.cgal.org/



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