[freearchitecture] Re: x3d-cad vs. step

[Christopher Sean Morrison]

Greg,

Thanks for the note/inquiry.  What sort of update or links are you  
referring to?

We're still working on our STEP convertor effort for BRL-CAD if  
that's what you're interested in.  I'd be more than willing to help  
set you up if you are interested in contributing developer resources  
to the task.  It's our #1 development priority (tightly coupled with  
our BREP efforts) this year and next, receiving a lot of attention.   
It's also still a huge multiple man-year effort that has a couple  
years remaining for complete full integration and completion.  Mainly  
a huge effort because of the BREP work required to properly/fully  
support arbitrary geometry formats.

Given our current developer resources and open source participation,  
I don't expect us rolling the converter out for public use until  
sometimes next fiscal year.  We're also interested in having someone  
work on a collada and/or x3d conversion capability, but that's not  
presently on our table given the BREP and STEP tasks.  But again, if  
someone wants to contribute the manpower to work that area, I'd  
certainly help out as much as I could.

Cheers!
Sean



On May 20, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Greg Howes wrote:

> Christopher,
>
> I was researching X3D-CAD vs. STEP and came across this old post by  
> you
>
> https://www.email-lists.org/pipermail/freearchitecture/2006-May/ 
> 000079.html
>
> Any updates or links you can point me to?
>
> I work in architecture and with CAD-CAM-CNC home manufacturers and  
> we are looking at front end visualization solutions using optimized  
> (reduced) files for real-time online visualization and are  
> exploring collada and x3d solutions.  I know many of the people in  
> web3d.org and the collada groups.
>
> Hope to hear from you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Greg Howes
> San Francisco
>

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