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[Marc Glisse <>]

On Wed, 25 May 2011, harris.max wrote:

> I'm trying to get CGAL to generate a plane that's offset by some specifiable
> distance from an existing plane, but everything I've tried so far isn't
> working. What's the best way to do this?

What did you try that isn't working?

There doesn't seem to be any function to do that directly, but you could 
for instance use Construct_orthogonal_vector_3 to get a normal vector, 
scale it to whatever distance you want, then translate the plane?

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Marc Glisse