1foreignfilesupport(3)                Coin                foreignfilesupport(3)
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6       foreignfilesupport - Foreign File Format Support This is a page
7       describing foreign file format support in Coin.
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9       Formats supported so far:
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11       • STL / Stereolithography files (.stl)
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13       The SoSTLFileKit server as a first example on how foreign file format
14       support can be implemented through the SoForeignFileKit interface
15       nodekit. For STL, the file format is so trivial that it maps directly
16       into a few Open Inventor nodes. For other file formats, the direct
17       mapping might not be possible or desirable (maybe important information
18       will get lost in such a conversion), and the implementor might choose
19       to implement a set of internal custom nodes for doing the rendering
20       (and applying the other actions), and choose to first do pure Open
21       Inventor organization when the node kit is asked to write its contents
22       as a scene graph.
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24       FIXME: Document autoloading when implemented and tested
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26       See also
27           SoForeignFileKit, SoSTLFileKit
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29Version 4.0.0                   Wed Jan 19 2022          foreignfilesupport(3)