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- From: burr@seas.gwu.edu (Timothy J. Burr)
- Subject: Specifying normals in Inventor
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.221523.26045@seas.gwu.edu>
- Sender: news@seas.gwu.edu
- Organization: George Washington University
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:15:23 GMT
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- If you include a SoShapeHints node with an SoIndexFaceSetKit and give
- the hints ( ORDERED & SOLID & CONVEX ), does Inventor automatically
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- 1) Assume that normals are PER_FACE
- 2) Create the normals for each face?
-
- It seems like it should. I guess another way of stating my question is
- in what situations does Inventor compute the normals, relieving the
- programmer from having to do so?
-