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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0002253 | File formats | Feature | public | 2015-09-09 22:02 | 2015-09-10 19:13 |
Reporter | savio araujo | Assigned To | yorik | ||
Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | have not tried |
Status | closed | Resolution | duplicate | ||
Summary | 0002253: add support for Rhino3D files | ||||
Description | available library from developers of Rhino3D (http://opennurbs.org/). it should be nice to have capability to load/save Rhino3D models, together with https://sourceforge.net/projects/libnurbs/ it should be good replacement for Rhino3D in linux | ||||
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Actually I dont like myself to struggle with commercial file formats. But If someone have coding time - be welcome. |
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It is unclear to me reading the OpenNURBS Initiative website whether the 3DM file format is open source or commercial. But it seems to be completely documented, which I think means it would be much less of a struggle to incorporate in FreeCAD as other proprietary and closed formats. It would indeed be really nice to have a CAD program on Linux able to open 3DMĀ files. But there is no NURBS support or tools in FreeCAD at the moment, maybe Blender (which supports NURBS surfaces) would be best suited? |
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OCC support NURBS, but we lack the tools to model it. So we could do boolean operation on loaded NURBS, buts thats around it. Actually I'm not a big fan of NURBS. IMO subdevision surfaces are the way of the future... |
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Actually since freecad supports nurbs, 3DM format should be possible to handle without problems (and IIRC Rhino also supports brep-like objects)... On the openNurbs website there is a C++ toolkit which can read/write 3DM files, and appears to be compatible with GPL license ( http://www.opennurbs.org/docs.htm ): "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software." I'm downloadiing the toolkit right now to have a look... |
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Interesting quotes from the FAQ included inside the toolkit: "Excellent compilers and make utilities are available from The Free Software Foundation <http://www.fsf.org> You have the option of using these tools free of charge." "Internally, Rhino stores all surfaces as some type of b-rep and the openNURBS toolkit reads these objects as b-reps." |
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Hm reading a file looks actually pretty simple, if we can include the opennurbs code! |
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Reading the file should not be the problem. You have to transfer each entity to a OCC object. Not only the NURBS, also the trimming curves and all other entities like planes and so on... Its posible, but a lot of work an tuning to get it run.... |
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I have a skeleton FreeCAD importer that is using the OpenNurbs library to parse a 3dm file. I will now try and add code to create nurbs etc |
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Why are you cloning all these issues? |
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Please do not clone issues like that without a reason... It won't make them fixed magically, and only gives us more work. Thanks |
Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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2015-09-09 22:02 | savio araujo | New Issue | |
2015-09-09 22:02 | savio araujo | Issue generated from: 0000337 | |
2015-09-10 19:08 | yorik | Note Added: 0006382 | |
2015-09-10 19:13 | yorik | Relationship added | duplicate of 0000337 |
2015-09-10 19:13 | yorik | Note Added: 0006384 | |
2015-09-10 19:13 | yorik | Status | acknowledged => closed |
2015-09-10 19:13 | yorik | Assigned To | => yorik |
2015-09-10 19:13 | yorik | Resolution | open => duplicate |