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6       foreignfilesupport - 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       See also
26           SoForeignFileKit, SoSTLFileKit
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