<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jun 8, 2011, at 9:16 PM, Don Brutzman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Vincent, thanks for your note.<br><br>Please let us know your interests and we will be happy to reply.<br>Apologies that we did not get a chance to reply to your message<br>before today's teleconference.<br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006312">...</font></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>all the best, Don<br>-- <br>Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br <a href="mailto:brutzman@nps.edu">brutzman@nps.edu</a><br>Watkins 270 MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA +1.831.656.2149<br>X3D, virtual worlds, underwater robots <a href="http://faculty.nps.edu/brutzman">http://faculty.nps.edu/brutzman</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>My interest in X3D comes with computer-aided engineering viewpoint. I have been working with the STEP standard (ISO 10303) for manufacturing information exchange. STEP, among its many parts, offers neutral formats for CAD (STEP AP 203, AP 214) data as well as for NC machining (STEP-NC or AP 238) and other application areas. Most commercial CAD packages have the capability to export models as STEP AP-203 files. I have developed a web-based application for extracting the information content in STEP files (at <a href="http://spri.kshell.com">http://spri.kshell.com</a> ) and am interested in using X3D to deliver viewable 3-D models as content. I already have the ability to translate boundary representation models encoded in STEP files to X3D (xml encoding files), albeit using the trimmed nurbs surface nodes which are not uniformly implemented among browsers.</div><div><br></div><div>I recently joined the web3d consortium, some areas I'm interested in learning about, and perhaps contributing to, are:</div><div>-- support of the NURBS component</div><div>-- working with X3D content in a web browser environment, particularly working with dynamically generated content</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>Vince Marchetti</div><div>KShell Analysis</div><div>Stow, OH, USA</div><div><br></div></body></html>