Re: [brlcad-devel] [GSoC] A patch of ell_brep.cpp

[Clifford Y. <cli...@gm...>]

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 8:19 AM, phoenix <284...@qq...> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Clifford Yapp <cli...@gm...>
>  wrote:
> **
>
> Well, minimally, be sure you schedule some time to work on implementing
>> some means of converting arbitrary CSG primitives to brep form - csgbrep is
>> going to be too inflexible for general testing. You'll want the basic
>> primitive -> brep ability early in the process, since it will be key to
>> testing your results.
>>
>
>  Now I have already add an option to the brep command in MGED, so that I
> can use it to covert an arbitrary implicit primitive to brep, and the
> syntax is just as what you said. The test of the conversion becomes much
> easier and more convenient now. Thanks for your advises. As for this is
> still incomplete (I would still modify it during the project, and the
> ability to convert a CSG tree will be added, but it can be used now), I
> wonder whether it's suitable to make it a patch (so that I can share it
> with others and they can use this feature). What do you think?
>

Sure - as long as making a patch for it won't take too much time, go ahead
and post it (particularly if it's a working feature!).  Even if it needs
clean-up you can get feedback on it, and you can point to the additional
patch in your application as well.

CY