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["Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)" <>]

On 04/06/2014 05:20 AM, tang wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have two polyhedrons which have multiple objects inside them (the
> polyhedrons have multiple closed surfaces) and apply boolean operations to
> them by CGAL. Can CGAL perform boolean operations to all domains of these
> two polyhedrons, or only to the outer part of them? Is there any good method
> to do this?

If what you have in mind is nested surface (like a sphere with a hole 
inside represented by a nested sphere), then yes provided the
orientation of the surfaces are consistent (normals of facets induced
by their orientation point outside of the volume represented).

Sebastien.


> Thanks,
> Tang Laoya
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