<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Phillip<div><br></div><div>The STEP file browser, at <a href="http://spri.kshell.com">http://spri.kshell.com</a> will read a STEP file and deliver X3D models of the geometry in the file. If the STEP file contains NURBS surfaces then the X3D file will render those as NurbsPatchSurface or NurbsTrimmedSurface; and many other curved surfaces in the STEP file geometry are delivered that way as well.</div><div><br></div><div>See <a href="http://www.kshell.com/pages/x3d_cad/">http://www.kshell.com/pages/x3d_cad/</a> for a description of how to upload STEP files and get X3D back. The content of that page is out-of-date, the latest versions of the Octaga browser do not support NURBS surfaces as well as the version 2 of Octage Player did.</div><div><br></div><div>Encouraging and enabling support for NURBS surfaces by browsers and X3DOM is a major interest of the X3D-CAD group; see <a href="http://www.web3d.org/wiki/index.php/X3D_CAD">http://www.web3d.org/wiki/index.php/X3D_CAD</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Vince Marchetti</div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 26, 2013, at 6:40 AM, Philipp Serfling wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Monaco; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="DE" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Hi,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">are there any 3d programs / Cad programs available, which are able to export/ convert files into .x3d including <NurbsPatchSurface> node ?<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I tested many programs and none are really satisfying. Most programs triangulate nurbs information into <IndexedFaceSet> or <IndexedLineSet><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Only Polytrans converts some fileformats into <NurbsTrimmedSurface>, but with not satisfying results.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">My whole list can be reviewed in the attachement.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Thanks for your help<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">.philipp<o:p></o:p></div></div><span><cadProgrammsNurbs.rtf></span>_______________________________________________<br>X3D-Public mailing list<br><a href="mailto:X3D-Public@web3d.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">X3D-Public@web3d.org</a><br><a href="http://web3d.org/mailman/listinfo/x3d-public_web3d.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://web3d.org/mailman/listinfo/x3d-public_web3d.org</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>Vincent Marchetti</div><div><a href="mailto:vmarchetti@ameritech.net">vmarchetti@ameritech.net</a></div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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