Nicholas Woodfield

@a-gagnon This is old and no one approved...does it need additional update before we can complete it?

Hi @dassaf4, this request was to less about making the internals more performant and for the exportGraphics call to return a Promise so the backend doesn't block and wait for...

@saaaaaally I agree with Alex. Civil has a lot of custom tools that we do not add to this repo, it's OK and in the spirit of the original intentions...

@aruniverse Is there a push for packages to adopt this pattern? It doesn't really add much other than better discoverability, and beginning to move away from package statics. I just...

There's also some crossover with this [discussion](https://github.com/iTwin/platform-bentley-community/issues/103#issuecomment-3197956880), as the discussion has veered into the idea of tagging mesh data for use in other systems. `ExportGraphics` is really an abuse of...

> Let me see if I understand. In Typescript, ExportGraphicsMesh has a single index array shared among arrays of vertices, normals, and uv parameters. So you're thinking that if you...

> > Another aspect also will be if we have more things with edge mates, we'll be able to make better use of that data, as almost everything but Terrains...

@dassaf4 @aruniverse Another tool has been discussed internally within Civil that is going to also need to know top-surface triangles, like contours. I think it's going to be very important...

@bbastings It was just a pitch if it made sense or would require less work. I'm all in favor of a new API, any API, as long as it does...

Memory usage / unnecessary work done by the native side aside, wouldn't being able to stroke individual curve + 3d line style instead of the element enable us to be...