Geometry Attribute
Geometry is an attribute of entity. Geometry defines shape of the surface or curve or a set of points.
In mathematical terms it defines internal distances between various points and parts of the shape.
Geometry does not have location or orientation. Most often it is expressed using data related to some fixed, but unspecified
set of coordinate axes. Geometry obtains location and orientation only using local frame of the entity which uses the geometry.
Geometries can be shared by different entities almost always at different locations/orientations
There are several significantly different types of geometry. Type is a string property of geometry
Geometry is defined internally using various data structures which significantly depend on type of the geometry.
Supported geometry types:
- BRep - Parametric geometry defined by NURB-based BRep shapes: Vertex, Edge, Wire, Face, Shell, Solid, Composite Solid, Compound
- Mesh - Free-form meshed surfaces
There is also a number of deprecated geometry types providing backward compatibility with v5:
Deprecated Geometries.
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