CAD BoF 2012

Draft

Short Presentations and Cool Demonstrations! (40 minutes)

• Overview of technical goals and progress (Don, 3 minutes)
• Review weekend highlights of Web3D Conference relevant to X3D CAD (Yvonne or Marcio, 5 minutes)
• Recent work (2-3 minutes each)
  • Status of new or improved browsers
  • STEP2X3D Web-converter (Vince)
  • latest developments in X3DOM implementations (no plugin, WebGL or Flash) (Yvonne)
  • Fraunhofer IGD Publishing JT Open files with X3DOM)
  • X3D Validator, X3D-Edit (Don)
  • Xj3D source code merging progress (Don Vince and Hyo)
  • Compressed binary encoding progress and plans (Don)

• Resolving NURBS, Parametric History Model, B-REPS and STEP support for X3D
  • Parametric History Model (Hyo)
  • CAD2X3D conversion : PartDB’s work (Hyo)
  • STEP support for X3D (Vince)

• How to get involved in Web3D and CAD working group (Anita, Don, 3 minutes)

Other announcements and group discussion (20 minutes)

• Availability of other software and example models

• People's reactions