Make CGAL circle-segments 0-default deflection-driven (rework #8368)

Address maintainer request on #8368: instead of a deflection floor on top
of a fixed CircleSegments count, use one mode or the other. When
CircleSegments == 0 (the new default) the CGAL kernel derives the conic
segment count from MesherLinearDeflection, matching the deflection based
meshing OpenCascade already does and fixing #8051. When CircleSegments is
non zero it is used directly as a fixed, radius independent count.

CircleSegments is only read by the CGAL kernel; OpenCascade meshes by
deflection and never reads it, so the new default has no effect there.

Update the setting description and the ifcconvert / geometry-settings docs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 0d70812641)
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Petru Conduraru
2026-07-07 22:11:34 +03:00
committed by Dion Moult
parent b774c9ad18
commit c57da082a5
4 changed files with 34 additions and 22 deletions
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@@ -373,8 +373,8 @@ namespace ifcopenshell {
struct CircleSegments : public SettingBase<CircleSegments, int> {
static constexpr const char* const name = "circle-segments";
static constexpr const char* const description = "Number of segments to approximate full circles in CGAL kernel.";
static constexpr int defaultvalue = 16;
static constexpr const char* const description = "Number of segments to approximate full circles in the CGAL kernel. When 0 (the default) the segment count is derived from mesher-linear-deflection instead, so curves stay within the deflection tolerance regardless of radius.";
static constexpr int defaultvalue = 0;
};
struct CgalSmoothAngleDegrees : public SettingBase<CgalSmoothAngleDegrees, double> {