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[Andreas Fabri <>]

You might compile the Polyhedron demo.
There you can load point clouds and reconstruct surfaces.

andreas

On 28/01/2016 18:05, Chiranjib Sur wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> Thank you very much, your suggestions works like a charm. I am able to
> build the examples using the existing CmakeLists.txt
>
> My next question will be how do I visualize the generated output. For
> example, I am trying the example "Surface_reconstruction_points_3" and
> poisson_reconstruction. I tried with the sample data file provided
> "data/kitten.xyz <http://kitten.xyz>" and can export the output file in
> .xyz format. Once I am done, how do I visualize the original file
> "data/kitten.xyz <http://kitten.xyz>" and surface constructed file which
> is "output.xyz <http://output.xyz>" for my case.
>
> This may be known to others but as a new starter, I am wondering if you
> can point me towards some visualizer that I can look at.
>
> Thanks again for the help,
> Chiranjib Sur
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Andreas Fabri
> <
> <mailto:>>
>  wrote:
>
>
>
>     On 28/01/2016 12:28, Chiranjib Sur wrote:
>
>         Hi Andreas,
>         Thank you very much for the message. Just to know more here are the
>         things I am doing :
>
>         1. Trying to compile the example Surface_modeling (cgal 4.5)
>         2. Steps i followed :
>         a) create the CMakeLists.txt by using the script
>         "cgal_create_CMakeLIsts
>
>
>     Isn't there already a CMakeLists.txt ??
>     You overwrite it when you run the script
>     And in the one overwritten was a  find (Eigen)
>
>     andreas
>
>         b) run cmake to generate make file
>         c) run make to compile
>
>         Things are ok upto generating makefile but when I run make, I
>         get the
>         compilation error.
>
>         As you suggested, what do you mean "when you configure cmake" ?
>         Do you
>         mind sending few more information about the steps one needs to
>         follow to
>         compile this example ?
>
>         Thanks again,
>         CHiranjib
>
>         On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Andreas Fabri
>         
> <
>         
> <mailto:>
>         
> <mailto:
>         
> <mailto:>>>
>  wrote:
>
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>              When you configure an example using cmake you have to give it
>              the directory of Eigen which you must have download separately.
>
>              andreas
>
>              On 28/01/2016 11:56, chiranjibsur wrote:
>
>                  Hi,
>                  I am very new to CGAL and I am learning/using this for
>         the first
>                  time. I
>                  faced similar problems and found this thread. However,
>         I have a
>                  questions:
>
>                  What do you mean by adding "#define CGAL_EIGEN3_ENABLED
>         worked
>                  fine".
>
>                  Where you add this line too ?
>
>                  There are many examples which gives similar compilation
>         error.
>                  Is there any
>                  global setting that I can modify so that the
>         compilation goes
>                  smoothly?
>
>                  Thanks in advance.
>
>                  Chiranjib
>
>
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