[vtkusers] vtkSTLWriter strongly confusing behavior

Dominik Szczerba dominik at itis.ethz.ch
Wed Aug 19 16:14:44 EDT 2009


You may be right, but then I would still argue the reader should not do 
it as it does not read the actual mesh in the file - this is not less 
confusing. Agree?

- Dominik

Frederic Danesi wrote:
> I think that there is no such thing as merging in the STLWriter, since a STL
> file is basically only the coordinates of the points, without any ID.
> The merging operation probably happen when you load your STL, since the
> coincident points have the same coordinates and are thus considered as
> unique point ...
> Fred.
> 
> Cordialement,
> F.Danesi


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