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["Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)" <>]

Just a guess:

Your polyhedron has at least one face with more that 3 vertices, and
those vertices are not exactly lying on a plane.

If this is the case, one solution is to triangulate those facets.

Sebastien.

On 01/27/2013 10:13 AM, mastair wrote:
> Sometimes when converting a polyhedron to a NEF polyhedron the following
> error is thrown. Anyone who can tell me what the problem would be? The
> polyhedra are valid and closed.
>
> CGAL error: assertion violation!
> Expression : pe_prev->is_border() ||
> internal::Plane_constructor<Plane>::get_plane(pe_prev->facet(),pe_prev->facet()->plane()).
> has_on(pe_prev->opposite()->vertex()->point())
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