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["Laurent Rineau (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.

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Laurent Rineau, PhD
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