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Sure. Create a diamond polygon and revolve it around a point.

Blender has methods and tools to _approximate_ doing this. It has a revolve tool... where the key parameter is the number of steps.

This is not a revolution, it's an approximation of a revolution with a bunch of planar parts.

BREP as I understand it allows you to describe the surfaces of this operation precisely and operate further on them (e.g. add a fillet to the top edge).

Ditto for things like circular holes in objects. With blender, you're fundamentally operating on a bunch of triangles. Fundamental and important solid operations must be approximated within that model.

BREP has a much richer set of primatives. This dramatically increases complexity but allows it to precisely model a much larger universe of solids.

(You can kinda rebuild functionality that geometric kernels have with geometry nodes now in blender. This is a lot of work and is not a great user interface compared to CAD programs)



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