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RE: CSG, boolean operations nodes...

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Subject: RE: CSG, boolean operations nodes...
From: mmh@xxxxxxx (Mike Heck)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 12:38:53 -0700 (PDT)
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 >   I need a boolean operations on objects in OpenInventor. I know that OI
 > himself doesn't support them... Hovever i have found on the web paper
 > "Interactive Rendering of CSG Models" 1996 by Tim Wiegand. In this paper
 > author have mentioned that he has written some Inventor nodes... Could
 > sombody send me those nodes (source of course) or tell me where can i find
 > them? I have tried to conntact Tim Wiegand but i can't find his current
 > e-mail adress... I have also checked the
 > www.arct.ac.uk/research/cadlib/inventor web page. Those nodes should be
 > there but they aren't ("no such file" - error while downloading...) 
 > Thank you...
 >                                      - jarek

FYI, TGS has implemented rendering of CSG-type boolean operations in
the SolidViz extension for Open Inventor 3.0 (released 2 weeks ago).

FermiLab is a TGS customer, so you might check if this is available
to you already.  Our contact at FermiLab is Jeff Kallenbach.

-Mike
 TGS Inc, http://www.tgs.com

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