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[Andreas Fabri <>]

Hi Fulvio,

It is not really "cut in half".  You can move the clipping plane,
and what you call "half" is the part of the mesh behind the
clipping plane.  How else could you look inside.

andreas

On 22/03/2011 21:40, Fabio Casado Ruiz wrote:
> Sorry to write once again but as an undergrad student our internet is
> restricted and i have used all of this month quota downloading and
> installing CGAL in both windows and linux. When I convert to
> tetrahedral mesh using the Mesh_3 demo all the objects are cut in
> half. Is this because of a configuration in the .off file, a
> parametrization for the algorithm, or the demo itself?? Thanks.
> Fabio ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fulvio
> Mastrogiovanni"<>
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>  Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011
> 12:47:15 PM (GMT-0500) Auto-Detected Subject: Re: [cgal-discuss]
> Probs loading .off file in mesh_3 demo
>
> Dear Fabio,
>
> I experienced this problem when loading huge off files (i.e., with
> many triangles). Try to reduce them using any decimation algorithm.
> Usually, any 3D graphics package has one.
>
> Best,
>
> Fulvio
>
> On 22/03/2011 17:37, Fabio Casado Ruiz wrote:
> > I'm trying to open camel.off with Mesh_3 demo (using ubuntu) and it
> > just says that it is not a known file format. Doesn't this demo
> > take .off files as an input?? help anyone? thanks fabio.