Nurbs, as noted earlier, are far from perfect. But for CAE they’re a few orders of magnitude better than JT, STL, and other such “discrete” formats. See this article for why – and this one for an excellent historical overview of how polyhedra came to rub elbows with Nurbs.
Polyhedra, Polygons and CAD
"the bottom of the CAD Format Ladder"
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