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I know this should put this in an email, but then I thought it would be more useful in the long term to post any comments publicly.

The ASM is a fork of the ACIS kernel (in case you didn't know) and would have more or less the same interface. (It also uses Scheme.)

When I worked at Autodesk I persuaded someone to finish their SWIG compilation against the ASM, so I had a Python interface almost immediately.
https://www.freesteel.co.uk/wpblog/2015/08/03/on-the-shape-of-autodesk/

This would be a more efficient way for ACIS to obtain this feature, if there was an application for it.

You can tell there are a lot of problems in the CAD industry, when you realize that Dassault has been singularly unable to swap Parasolid for ACIS in Solidworks, when they are so exposed by their rival Siemans owning Parasolid. BTW all three solid modelling kernels (Parasolid, ACIS and ASM) have their developer teams within a mile of one another in Cambridge, England. This is a perfect illustration of the unmitigated waste that is caused by closed source development. We could have had a kernel that was three times better and three times cheaper if it was open source, and it would solve many of the desperate CAD translation problems that waste so much of everyone's time.