Open Standards for Real-Time 3D Communication

The Web3D Consortium today has completed the first working draft of the CAD Distillation Format (CDF) specification - an open, royalty-free file format to distill the essential elements of complex CAD and architectural data for use throughout an enterprise. A second working draft of the CDF specification will be available this summer which will enable CDF with programmable shaders and a compressed binary format to support rapid delivery and content protection.
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