# Objective
It can sometimes be useful to combine several meshes into one. This
allows constructing more complex meshes out of simple primitives without
needing to use a 3D modeling program or entity hierarchies.
This could also be used internally to increase code reuse by using
existing mesh generation logic for e.g. circles and using that in
cylinder mesh generation logic to add the top and bottom of the
cylinder.
**Note**: This is *not* implementing CSGs (Constructive Solid Geometry)
or any boolean operations, as that is much more complex. This is simply
adding the mesh data of another mesh to a mesh.
## Solution
Add a `merge` method to `Mesh`. It appends the vertex attributes and
indices of `other` to `self`, resulting in a `Mesh` that is the
combination of the two.
For example, you could do this:
```rust
let mut cuboid = Mesh::from(shape::Box::default());
let mut cylinder = Mesh::from(shape::Cylinder::default());
let mut torus = Mesh::from(shape::Torus::default());
cuboid.merge(cylinder);
cuboid.merge(torus);
```
This would result in `cuboid` being a `Mesh` that also has the cylinder
mesh and torus mesh. In this case, they would just be placed on top of
each other, but by utilizing #11454 we can transform the cylinder and
torus to get a result like this:
https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/57632562/557402c6-b896-4aba-bd95-312e7d1b5238
This is just a single entity and a single mesh.
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