CAD BoF 2012

Draft

Short presentations and cool demonstrations! (45 minutes)

Overview of technical goals and major progress (Don, 1 minute)
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
- EDF Demo (Marc)
- PartDB Demo (Hyo)
- STEP2X3D Web-converter Demo (Vince)
- X3DOM Demo (no plugin, WebGL or Flash) (Yvonne)
- Fraunhofer IGD (Publishing JT Open files with X3DOM)
- X3D Validator and X3D-Edit Demos (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 (9 minutes)
- Parametric History Model (Hyo)
- CAD2X3D conversion : PartDB’s work (Hyo)
- STEP support for X3D (Vince)

Conclusions and next steps (Don, 2 minutes):
- good NURBS support will be able to deploy CAD X3D on any device
- direct B-REP Component can be an alternative for X3D
- CADinterchange profile enhancements (2D nodes, NURBS, lines etc.)

How to get involved as a Web3D Consortium Member in CAD X3D working group (Anita, 3 minutes)

Other announcements and group discussion (15 minutes)