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[gregthom992 <>]

HEllo experts

my task at hand is to subdivide a cylindrical object into shorter segments.
My cylindrical object is a mesh oriented along the z-axis with triangles and
edges but it sort of bends like an N at a certain points. Now I want to
obtain a section of the bended cylinder. I could simply clip with a plane at
a certain z distance along the length but my trouble is clipping this way
will yield a funny section if I clip it a the level of the "N" bend. Does
anyone how some ideas how to go about obtaining a single continuous section
of such a shape using CGAL ?

In the image the black lines are clip planes
In the attached image the shape is what I want to extract various sections
of but because the shape bends on itself I get two pieces, however I wanted
just one continuous section from the start through the end to the second
intersection with the clip plane B.

http://cgal-discuss.949826.n4.nabble.com/file/n4352427/test.jpg ?

Thank

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