Dear All,
I have recently start using TGS Open Inventor for Windows NT but I have to
confess that I am facing some problems. I am involved in a medical project
aiming to deliver robotic therapy to patients that have suffered from
stroke. It has been decided that we will use a combination of virtual and
real tasks to deliver appiling activities to the user. This surely will help
in patient's motivation and improve the recovery time. The first prototype
is intended to go to one hospital at the end of December for clinical
evaluation.
To start with, I have modelled a virtual room using 3D studio MAX and have
converted this scene into VRML 97 format. Somehow I have managed to read the
VRML scene into Open Inventor, but my main problem now is on how to access
the VRML scene in order to perform actions such as, move objects from one
location to another, detect when a collison occured, etc. Despit the books
(The Inventor Mentor, The Inventor Toolmaker, and TGS Extesions User's
guide) I am still lost! I have been trying to find examples but couldn't.
I wonder if you could help my in this matter, if you have any documentation
(tutorials, examples, etc) which relates to the problem discribed. Anything
will help! It is extremely difficult for me at the moment and without having
yet the abstraction behind computer graphics and the way Open Inventor
really works adds to my difficulty to solve the problem.
I will be very gratfull if you could help me in any way. I am looking
further to hearing from you.
Sincerely
Rui Loureiro
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Rui Loureiro
Research Officer
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