On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Rishabh Sharma <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1. The current application needs BRL-CAD to be installed on the computer and > will work only for linux based operating systems. So, it would be better if > there is an option to upload the .g file, convert it into .obj on the server > and then download the .obj file. This would make it possible to run the > application on any OS without having BRL-CAD installed. Not getting you here. Application is to be hosted on server. Users would not need to install the application on their own systems in order to use it. You can use your browser and upload .g file from any OS. > 3. The navigation in the scene(browser window) has to be improved. Some of > the things that come to my mind are, > > a) Option to change the texture and material of the object. > b) A view cube in the scene. > c) A four view window which would show the perspective, top, front and side > view of the model in one quadrant each. > d) Option to create/manipulate the light sources. Nice suggestions. You can read more at [0] for more ideas. Once we have our infrastructure ready, we are ready to go for all such and more thrilling features. > 4. Currently the application takes the .g file, converts it into .obj and > then displays it.There should be an option to upload .obj files directly. The basic idea behind this application was to visualize .g file on browser. But there is no direct way to do so, but obj is well supported by 3D JS libraries so we convert .g to .obj and read it through browser. In addition to the option of accepting .obj file format, we can also extend support to other major CAD formats but first we need to work upon basic support i.e. for only .g file. In addition to this, as suggested by Sean, we can provide conversion service in addition to viewer. That is, the option to convert .g file to other CAD formats. So it would specialize in viewing and geometry conversion, may be "OGCV". [0] http://brlcad.org/wiki/Online_Geometry/TODO -- Harmanpreet Singh Blog: http://singhharman.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
