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  • From: "Laurent Rineau (CGAL/GeometryFactory)" <>
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  • Subject: Re: [cgal-discuss] STEP and NURBS
  • Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 09:27:50 +0200
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On Tuesday, May 26, 2020 6:35:03 AM CEST John wrote:
> Hello CGAL users !
>
> I've tried to read docs, but it's still unclear to me :
>
> 1- Does CGAL handle STEP file format for read/write ?
>
> 2- Is it possible to use CGAL to compute a tangent plane /normal at a
> particular point of a NURBS surface ( I mean the surface is defined by its
> equation ) ?

Hi John,

Unfortunately, the answer is no to those two questions. CGAL does not have
anything to deal with STEP files, or with NURBS surfaces.

There is an ongoing work about meshing BRep objects, supported by
GeometryFactory and Inria, but its results will not be available in CGAL
before long.

--
Laurent Rineau, PhD
R&D Engineer at GeometryFactory http://www.geometryfactory.com/
Release Manager of the CGAL Project http://www.cgal.org/






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