From: Robert E. Hartley (rhartley++at++ics.com)
Date: 01/15/2000 08:17:56
Mr. Naaman,
Are any of those free Inventor work alikes functional enough to read in an
Inventor file and then use the geometry in Performer?
A friend of mine has mentioned at various times things like Apprentice,
Coin,
and Pryan, to name a few.
If so, then there should be no problem using them under Linux.
Robbo
Alexandre Naaman wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Angus Dorbie wrote:
>
> > Since you support VRML 1.0 and that's similar to Inventor what's your
> > code like at loading Inventor files? Would someone have to modify the
> > string at the start of the file, or does it just work? Is it fully
> > functional for Inventor? Do you support Linux?
>
> VRML 1.0 is a very small subset of what Inventor supports. No engines,
> nurbs, non-indexed shapes or tri-strip nodes. There are ~100 nodes in
> Inventor; in VRML 1.0 there are only 36.
>
> A+,
>
> Alex.
>
> --
> Alexandre Naaman - naaman++at++sgi.com - La conformité est la mort de l'âme.
>
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