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["Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)" <>]

There is indeed nothing official in CGAL. However, in the Polyhedron
demo we wrote a small plugin that is meshing the distance function to a 
mesh and the output is by construction guaranteed to be free from 
self-intersections. However sharp features are not correctly meshed if
not protected.

Go into 3D Surface Mesh Generation -> Offset meshing once having loaded
a polyhedron.

Source code is here:
https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/blob/releases/CGAL-4.12-branch/Polyhedron/demo/Polyhedron/Plugins/Surface_mesh/Offset_meshing_plugin.cpp

HTH,

Sebastien.

On 05/17/2018 07:44 PM, Zesen Qian wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I have a triangulated, closed mesh which is free of any degeneracies.
> Is there any reliable way to offset this mesh? By reliable I mean the
> result mesh should be free of any degeneracies.
>
> I searched on Internet and there is simply not an library/program
> available that can do this. I guess CGAL isn't capable of this either,
> but I believe people on this list should be familiar with this topic
> and maybe offer some comments.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best,
> Zesen