Reference Manual

Sébastien Loriot, Léo Valque, and Ilker O. Yaz

This package provides a collection of methods and classes to compute Boolean operations on meshes (union, intersection, and difference), clipping and splitting of meshes using planes, boxes, or other meshes, and slicing of triangulated surfaces.

Introduced in: CGAL 4.7
Depends on: documented for each function
BibTeX: cgal:pmp-boolop-26a
License: GPL
Windows Demo: CGAL Lab

Classified Reference Pages

Parameters

Optional parameters of the functions of this package are implemented as Named Parameters. The page Named Parameters describes their usage.

Corefinement

• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::corefine()
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::autorefine_triangle_soup()
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::autorefine()

Boolean Operations

• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::corefine_and_compute_union()
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::corefine_and_compute_difference()
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::corefine_and_compute_intersection()
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::corefine_and_compute_boolean_operations()
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::surface_intersection() (deprecated)
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::intersection_polylines()

Clipping and Splitting

• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::clip()
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::split()

Slicing

• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_slicer
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::refine_with_plane()
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::refine_mesh_at_isolevel()

Kernel Computation

• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::kernel()
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::has_empty_kernel()
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::kernel_point()

See Also

• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::IO::read_polygon_mesh()
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::polygon_soup_to_polygon_mesh()
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::polygon_mesh_to_polygon_soup()
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::triangulate_faces()
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::do_intersect()

Topics
	Concepts
	Corefinement and Autorefinement
	Functions to corefine triangulated surface meshes and triangle soups.
	Boolean Operations
	Functions to compute triangulated the union, difference, and intersection of meshes.
	Clipping and Splitting
	Functions to clip and split meshes using planes, boxes, or other meshes.
	Slicing
	Functions to split meshes using planes.
	Mesh Kernel
	Functions to compute kernel of polyhedra.