Sweep

SMLib has the ability to sweep faces, edges, and vertices to the same dimension or to a higher dimension.

• The sweep of a face to the same dimension produces a copy of the face at the terminal position.
• The sweep of a face to a higher dimension produces a solid volume between the original face and the terminal position face.
• The sweep of an edge to the same dimension produces a copy of the edge at the terminal position.<
• The sweep of an edge to a higher dimension produces a face between the original edge and the terminal position edge.
• The sweep of a vertex to the same dimension produces a copy of the vertex at the terminal position.
• The sweep of a vertex to a higher dimension produces an edge between the original vertex and the terminal position vertex.

The Non-Manifold Sweeping is designed as an Object-Oriented Framework. Application developers can easily create new geometric sweeps by implementing a new subclass that produces the geometry for the sweep operation while the Framework builds the topology for the sweep.