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Comment by nynx

21 hours ago

Breps. Nearly all commercial cad packages operate on boundary representations of objects.

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pca006132  13 hours ago

Mesh is also a boundary representation. I think you meam NURBS.

  • MITSardine  5 hours ago

    It's just the name, BREP stands for Boundary REPresentation.

bob1029  21 hours ago

I would start with CSG if you are new to these ideas:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_solid_geometry

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