NMG_SIMPLIFY(nged)

✨ NMG_SIMPLIFY (nged) ✨

okay bestie, this one is a glow-up command and it lives in your nged manual. it takes a kinda messy nmg_shape and is literally like "let me try to give you a simpler primitive shape type" — a full makeover moment 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

nmg_simplify — attempts to convert an existing nmg_shape to a simpler primitive shape type. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🦋

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

nmg_simplify [[arb] | [tgc] | [poly]] {new_shape nmg_shape}

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea: nmg_simplify attempts to convert an existing nmg_shape to a simpler primitive shape type. main character energy, honestly 🔥

you can tell it which type to go for by dropping arb, tgc, or poly on the command line — like picking an outfit, but for geometry 🎀

if you don't specify any shape type at all, it'll attempt all of them, in the order above (arb, then tgc, then poly). no cap, it just runs the whole list 💫

and if you say tgc? the code will attempt to determine whether the nmg_shape is an approximation of a TGC shape 👑 iykyk.

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

this example shows the use of the nmg_simplify command to convert an existing nmg shape to a polysolid. slay.

⭐ Example 1. Convert an existing shape to a polysolid.

mged>nmg_simplify poly shapea.poly shapea.nmg

converts the nmg shape named shapea.nmg to a polysolid named shapea.poly. literally iconic, she transformed 💅✨

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

BRL-CAD Team — the group chat we all owe a thank-you message 💜

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🐛 BUG REPORTS 🐛

reports of bugs or problems should be submitted via electronic mail to devs@brlcad.org 📧 if something's acting up, tell the devs, don't suffer in silence bestie 😭

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ngl, if a conversion doesn't work out, that's just the command doing its thing — nothing here promises success, only that it attempts. manage those expectations 🍓

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and that's the page!! brought to you by the BRL-CAD crew, straight from the NMG_SIMPLIFY(nged) corner of the manual — go forth and simplify, bestie 🧚💖