1coin_foreign_file_support(3) Coin coin_foreign_file_support(3)
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6 coin_foreign_file_support - Foreign File Format Support
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8 This is a page describing foreign file format support in Coin.
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10 Formats supported so far:
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12 • STL / Stereolithography files (.stl)
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14 The SoSTLFileKit server as a first example on how foreign file format
15 support can be implemented through the SoForeignFileKit interface
16 nodekit. For STL, the file format is so trivial that it maps directly
17 into a few Open Inventor nodes. For other file formats, the direct
18 mapping might not be possible or desirable (maybe important information
19 will get lost in such a conversion), and the implementor might choose
20 to implement a set of internal custom nodes for doing the rendering
21 (and applying the other actions), and choose to first do pure Open
22 Inventor organization when the node kit is asked to write its contents
23 as a scene graph.
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25 FIXME: Document auto loading when implemented and tested
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27 See also
28 SoForeignFileKit, SoSTLFileKit
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30Version 4.0.1 Mon Nov 20 2023 coin_foreign_file_support(3)