Boundary representation is the principal solid modelling method used in modern CAD/CAM systems. There have been a long series of developments on which currently available systems are based, full details of which are only partially known. Ian Stroud’s thorough coverage of these developments puts this technology in perspective and provides the most complete presentation of boundary representation solid modelling yet published.
There are three ways described here: command interpreters, macro-languages,
and programming interfaces. Command interpreters are the most complex, and
most of this chapter is devoted to them. Macro-languages are based, to some
extent, on these in that they provide a symbolic programming interface.
Programming interfaces, known usually as Application Programming Interfaces,
or APIs, turn the modeller into a software package around which it is possible to
create ...
