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[easyw <easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Cirilo, 
is there a way to build it as a standalone 3D viewer?
I could do some test on win and osx

Maurice

On 8 January 2016 09:03:47 CET, Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>For those interested in the ongoing 3D work, the VRML parsers have been
>greatly improved in the last few days so you can expect to view all
>your
>VRML models in the preview panel of the Footprint Properties editors.
>
>There's still a way to go to replace 3DViewer but the code as it is
>provides
>a tool (preview) which people may find useful and of course the new
>3D model file path resolver and a much improved selection dialog.
>
>I used the new interface to help select my models for the
>pic_programmer
>demo:
>
>https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By_XTJN-s8aXSDU2VXVQNUJoM1k/view?usp=sharing
>
>That's a rendering of course from the current 3DViewer, but I can
>assure
>you all
>that selecting the models was much easier with this new interface.
>
>One down side of the new 3D plugins: since the 3DViewer has not yet
>been
>replaced, 3DViewer still uses the legacy parsers and I've found that
>they
>segfault on quite a number of test files which the plugins + preview
>display
>without problems. So the good (and bad) news is that I know there are
>problems in the current parsers. The other bad news of course is that
>there's
>no point in spending time fixing those parsers. Of course more testing
>and
>comments would be appreciated.  I'm nagging a handful of people to test
>on
>MSWin, Linux, and OSX but I know they're all very busy with other
>things and
>I get tired of nagging.
>
>- Cirilo
>
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