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My experience with F-Rep based modeling systems is that once you've used a few transformations, the distance field becomes highly non-cartesian and operations do not have the expected effect. For example, "offset" generally only has the desired effect on a primitive shape. Until someone cracks the problem of "renormalizing" signed distance fields, I fear all such systems will just be toys.

Antimony [1] and its related project AO [2], as well as ImplicitCAD [3], are CAD-oriented F-Rep systems (that suffer from the problem I mention).

[1] https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/antimony/3/

[2] https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/ao/

[3] http://www.implicitcad.org

parent dTal 7 years ago

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