Hello,
There has been some discussion in a pull
request that I thought would be better brought to the mailing
list.
This was initially motivated by the realization that iGeom was
inconsistent in returning a RefVolume vs a Body in different calls.
Thus, two entity handles that referred to the same volume in space
would not be detected as the same volume.
Faced with two choices - refer only to RefVolumes or refer only to
Body's - we settled on referring only to refVolume's in the iGeom
interface. However, this breaks the ability to refer to a Body such
as my be returned by uniting two volumes that are disjoint - which
is part of the interface.
So.... perhaps we need to only deal with Body in the iGeom
interface. Perhaps Patrick can offer some of the downsides to this
approach?
Paul
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