QMG uses double precision arithmetic, so the smallest reasonable setting for this parameter is about 1e-16. But we found that roundoff error quickly builds, so 1e-13 seems reasonable. If routines start failing with peculiar error messages about points not in affine hulls or tolerance errors, you should increase the tolerance.
You also will need to increase the tolerance if you import a brep from some external package that works with lower precision.
Note that QMG routines automatically take into account the inherent size of the object you are working with and compute another tolerance called scaled_tol in most routines. For example, if your brep is a cube of side length 1e10, and your tolerance is 1e-11, then QMG will assume items in this brep are the same if they are within a distance 1e-1.
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Stephen A. Vavasis, Computer Science Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, vavasis@cs.cornell.edu