BOT_FUSE(nged)

💅 BOT_FUSE — fuse duplicate vertices and faces in a BOT mesh

okay bestie, welcome to the nged command page for bot_fuse ✨ this is the little cleanup gremlin that takes a BOT mesh and fuses its duplicate vertices and faces for you. no cap, it's giving “tidy up the group chat” energy. 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

bot_fuse — fuse duplicate vertices and faces in a BOT mesh

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

bot_fuse [-s|-p] new_bot old_bot

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so basically, bot_fuse removes duplicate vertices and faces from the BOT (Bag-of-Triangles) primitive named old_bot, and writes the result as a new BOT named new_bot. the original object is not modified — it just sits there looking pretty untouched. 💖

duplicate vertices that are within the database tolerance get merged into a single vertex. duplicate faces — meaning triangles with the same three vertex indices — are similarly fused. slay. 🔥

after fusing, open edges may be detected. by “open edges” we mean edges shared by only one face. the optional -s and -p flags control how those open edges are reported:

💅 Options 💅

• -s — show open edges by drawing them in the display as colored lines after the operation. ✨
• -p — plot open edges to a temporary plot file for subsequent inspection. 🎀

without either flag, open edge detection runs silently and results are not visualized. lowkey stealth mode. 🤫

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Example 1. Fuse a BOT and save to a new name

mged> bot_fuse clean_hull.bot raw_hull.bot

fuses duplicate vertices and faces in raw_hull.bot and writes the cleaned result to clean_hull.bot. iconic behavior honestly. 💅

Example 2. Fuse and display open edges

mged> bot_fuse -s clean_hull.bot raw_hull.bot

fuses the BOT and then highlights any open edges in the display. main character visualization moment. 🌟

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• bot_merge(nged)
• bot_smooth(nged)
• bot_dump(nged)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

BRL-CAD Team

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🐛 BUG REPORTS 🐛

reports of bugs or problems should be submitted via electronic mail to devs@brlcad.org 💌

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and that’s the whole page, bestie 🫶 this one’s from BRL-CAD and it’s the BOT_FUSE(nged) manual page — periodt. 💖✨