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["Laurent Rineau (GeometryFactory)" <>]

Le mardi 21 février 2012 23:02:39 Philipp Moeller a écrit :
> Helmi Ben Hmida 
> <>
>  writes:
> > I would like to read the content of an IFC file (or VRML if not) from
> > the CGAL library and store the different geometries inside in the
> > nefPolyhderon Structure in order to apply certain topologic operaion
> > on them later on.
> 
> As Sebastien already told you: The simplest way is probably to convert
> your files to the OFF format [1], use those files to create a
> CGAL::Polyhedron and construct a CGAL::Nef_polyhedron [2] from those files.
> 
> The documentation for Polyhedron [3] even says that it supports VRML
> files, but I have never used this.

Only for writing (with dedicated output streams). There is no input streams 
for reading VRML files into a CGAL polyhedron.

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Laurent Rineau, PhD
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