Problem 215 - MANY volumes
Summary: MANY volumes
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Geant4
Classification: Unclassified
Component: g3tog4 (show other problems)
Version: other
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 normal
Assignee: Gabriele Cosmo
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Reported: 2001-02-02 05:30 CET by ob214
Modified: 2001-02-02 06:52 CET (History)
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Description ob214 2001-02-02 05:30:11 CET 
Can you implement MANY volumes in Geant4?
How does Geant4 treat overlapping volumes?
My guess is that Geant4 doesn't support MANY volumes
and you therefore have to make sure you don't have any
overlapping volumes (apart from boolean ones). Is that correct?
Comment 1 Gabriele Cosmo 2001-02-02 06:51:59 CET 
Given the accuracy Geant4 can reach, it is also very sensitive to problems
due to inaccurate geometry setups, therefore overlapping volumes are not
allowed in Geant4 (see User's Guide for Application Developers, section 4.2.3),
as well as G3's MANY volumes are not supported by G3toG4 (see README placed in
geant4/source/g3tog4).
Boolean solids can be used for this purpose.