Reference Manual

Pierre Alliez, Clément Jamin, Laurent Rineau, Stéphane Tayeb, Jane Tournois, and Mariette Yvinec

This package provides a data structure to store three-dimensional simplicial meshes and their subcomplexes. It provides an API for tetrahedral meshes generated with CGAL or not, to be processed with CGAL 3D mesh generation and remeshing algorithms, along with iterators, IO functions, and additional helper functions.

Introduced in: CGAL 5.6
Depends on: 3D Triangulations
BibTeX: cgal:ajrtty-mds3-26a
License: GPL
Windows Demo: CGAL Lab

Classified Reference Pages

Concepts

• MeshComplex_3InTriangulation_3
• MeshComplexWithFeatures_3InTriangulation_3
• SimplicialMeshCellBase_3
• SimplicialMeshVertexBase_3

Classes

• CGAL::Mesh_complex_3_in_triangulation_3
• CGAL::Simplicial_mesh_vertex_base_3
• CGAL::Simplicial_mesh_cell_base_3

Function Templates

• CGAL::facets_in_complex_3_to_triangle_mesh()
• CGAL::is_tetrahedron_soup_a_triangulation()
• CGAL::tetrahedron_soup_to_triangulation_3()

Input/Output Functions

• CGAL::IO::write_MEDIT()
• CGAL::IO::read_MEDIT()
• CGAL::IO::output_to_vtu()
• CGAL::IO::output_to_tetgen()
• CGAL::IO::save_binary_file()
• CGAL::IO::load_binary_file()
• CGAL::IO::output_to_medit() (deprecated)

Topics
	Concepts
	The main concepts of this package.
	Classes
	The classes describing a 3D simplicial mesh data structure.
	Functions
	The functions to work with the 3D mesh data structures.
	Export Functions
	The free functions that can be used to export meshes to given output file formats.
	Input/Output Functions
	The free functions that can be used to read and write meshes.