F3D is an open source 3D viewer, fast and minimalist

Re:F3D is an open source 3D viewer, fast and minimalist by nraynaud on Thursday October 05, 2023 @07:08AM (#37777100)

Macs mostly do it, unless it's STEP, nobody can reasonably open a STEP file, even scihub doesn't have the specification.

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Re:F3D is an open source 3D viewer, fast and minimalist by phkahler on Thursday October 05, 2023 @07:20AM (#37777174)

The OCCT library can read STEP pretty well, but there's nothing small or light about leveraging that ;-)

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Re:F3D is an open source 3D viewer, fast and minimalist by GlowOnDub on Thursday October 05, 2023 @07:39AM (#37777312)

F3D rely on OCCT to open STEP and IGES file, just try it :)

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Re:F3D is an open source 3D viewer, fast and minimalist by phkahler on Thursday October 05, 2023 @03:14PM (#37782922)

The only other Free Software STEP reader of any competence might be the one in gCAD3d. It's written in C. But even if you can read STEP there is the problem of triangulating trimmed NURBS surfaces. I've been wanting to lift that reader and put it in Solvespace for linking parts in assembly but it's a big job and we still can't support all the types of geometry you might find in STEP.

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Re:F3D is an open source 3D viewer, fast and minimalist by DeadMouseFive on Thursday October 05, 2023 @02:24PM (#37782145)

Windows 11 shows STEP thumbnails now.

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Re:F3D is an open source 3D viewer, fast and minimalist by GlowOnDub on Thursday October 05, 2023 @05:32PM (#37784552)

By default ?

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