From: Brian (Groups) on
I'm wondering what the options are here, for a 3rd party to view a 3D
rendering produced by a CAD program. What I'd like is is for the user
to be able to rotate (maybe zoom too) a view on 3 axes, without the
need of installing the CAD program or even its free viewer. Does SVG
enable this kind of viewing (with a browser plugin say)?

It would be great if there was some sort of self-contained .EXE format
that could be produced to do this job. I'm sure I've seen something
like this embedded in web pages, but having just had yet another
"brain cell loss commemoration day" AKA birthday, I can't remember the
details. :( What was the question again?

Brian
From: wasbit on
"Brian (Groups)" <usspskghws(a)mailinator.com> wrote in message
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> I'm wondering what the options are here, for a 3rd party to view a 3D
> rendering produced by a CAD program. What I'd like is is for the user
> to be able to rotate (maybe zoom too) a view on 3 axes, without the
> need of installing the CAD program or even its free viewer. Does SVG
> enable this kind of viewing (with a browser plugin say)?
>
> It would be great if there was some sort of self-contained .EXE format
> that could be produced to do this job. I'm sure I've seen something
> like this embedded in web pages, but having just had yet another
> "brain cell loss commemoration day" AKA birthday, I can't remember the
> details. :( What was the question again?
>
> Brian

I pulled these from my lists but I don't know if they will do what you
require.

Autocad Drawing Viewer - http://www.skysof.com/
Browz 3d (viewer) - http://users.skynet.be/bk232951/
EDrawings Viewer - http://www.edrawingsviewer.com/
Free DWG Viewer (Dwg,Dxf,Cad) - http://infograph.com/products/viewers.htm

Deskartes View Expert - http://www.deskartes.com/

Regards wasbit

From: Daniel Menzel on
Am 06.05.2010 01:58, schrieb Brian (Groups):
> I'm wondering what the options are here, for a 3rd party to view a 3D
> rendering produced by a CAD program. What I'd like is is for the user
> to be able to rotate (maybe zoom too) a view on 3 axes, without the
> need of installing the CAD program or even its free viewer. Does SVG
> enable this kind of viewing (with a browser plugin say)?
>
> It would be great if there was some sort of self-contained .EXE format
> that could be produced to do this job. I'm sure I've seen something
> like this embedded in web pages, but having just had yet another
> "brain cell loss commemoration day" AKA birthday, I can't remember the
> details. :( What was the question again?
>
> Brian

Perhaps this could help you too: http://www.meshlab.org/

Daniel
From: Brian (Groups) on
On May 7, 3:39 pm, Daniel Menzel <efmen...(a)web.de> wrote:
> Am 06.05.2010 01:58, schrieb Brian (Groups):
>
> > I'm wondering what the options are here, for a 3rd party to view a 3D
> > rendering produced by a CAD program. What I'd like is is for the user
> > to be able to rotate (maybe zoom too) a view on 3 axes, without the
> > need of installing the CAD program or even its free viewer. Does SVG
> > enable this kind of viewing (with a browser plugin say)?
>
> > It would be great if there was some sort of self-contained .EXE format
> > that could be produced to do this job. I'm sure I've seen something
> > like this embedded in web pages, but having just had yet another
> > "brain cell loss commemoration day" AKA birthday, I can't remember the
> > details. :( What was the question again?
>
> > Brian
>
> Perhaps this could help you too:http://www.meshlab.org/
>
> Daniel

Thanks Daniel and wasbit. I'm having a look at MeshLab now. I've also
found somthing with some promise, although it is a bit buggy:
http://freewrl.sourceforge.net/

I'm continuing my hunt, but can't find anything as "developed" as the
pretty seamless browser add-ons that have come of age for .svg files.
Maybe these haven't evolved yet. When I'm through looking, I'll post a
list of maybes for wasbit freeware lists.

cheers
Brian