.. auto-generated by script ../../../../utils/nxdl2rst.py from the NXDL source NXcg_triangulated_surface_mesh.nxdl.xml

.. index::
    ! NXcg_triangulated_surface_mesh (base class)
    ! cg_triangulated_surface_mesh (base class)
    see: cg_triangulated_surface_mesh (base class); NXcg_triangulated_surface_mesh

.. _NXcg_triangulated_surface_mesh:

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NXcg_triangulated_surface_mesh
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**Status**:

  base class, extends :ref:`NXobject`

**Description**:

  Computational geometry description of a mesh of triangles.

  The mesh may be self-intersecting and have holes but the
  triangles must not be degenerated.

**Symbols**:

  The symbols used in the schema to specify e.g. dimensions of arrays.

**Groups cited**:
  :ref:`NXcg_half_edge_data_structure`, :ref:`NXcg_triangle_set`

.. index:: NXcg_triangle_set (base class); used in base class, NXcg_half_edge_data_structure (base class); used in base class

**Structure**:

  .. _/NXcg_triangulated_surface_mesh/CG_TRIANGLE_SET-group:

  **CG_TRIANGLE_SET**: (optional) :ref:`NXcg_triangle_set`


  .. _/NXcg_triangulated_surface_mesh/CG_HALF_EDGE_DATA_STRUCTURE-group:

  **CG_HALF_EDGE_DATA_STRUCTURE**: (optional) :ref:`NXcg_half_edge_data_structure`

    A graph-based approach to describe the mesh when it is also desired
    to perform topological processing or analyses on the mesh.


Hypertext Anchors
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List of hypertext anchors for all groups, fields,
attributes, and links defined in this class.


* :ref:`/NXcg_triangulated_surface_mesh/CG_HALF_EDGE_DATA_STRUCTURE-group </NXcg_triangulated_surface_mesh/CG_HALF_EDGE_DATA_STRUCTURE-group>`
* :ref:`/NXcg_triangulated_surface_mesh/CG_TRIANGLE_SET-group </NXcg_triangulated_surface_mesh/CG_TRIANGLE_SET-group>`

**NXDL Source**:
  https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/blob/main/base_classes/NXcg_triangulated_surface_mesh.nxdl.xml