CAD BoF 2012

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The X3D Computer Aided Design (CAD) Working Group is happy to present a public Birds of a Feather (BOF) meeting at SIGGRAPH 2012.

Short presentations and cool demonstrations! (40 minutes)

  • Overview of technical goals and major progress (Don, 1 minute)
  • Review weekend highlights of Web3D Conference relevant to X3D CAD (Yvonne or Christophe, 5 minutes)
  • Recent work (2-3 minutes each)
    • Status of new or improved browsers
    • PartDB Demo, Catia to X3D Converter using [X3D CAD Macro-Parametric Approach for Translation] (Hyo)
    • STEP2X3D Web-converter Demo (Vince)
    • Fraunhofer IGD X3DOM Demo (someone from IGD)
    • X3D Validator and X3D-Edit Demos (Don)
    • Xj3D source code merging progress (Don Vince and Hyo)
    • Compressed binary encoding progress and plans (Don)
  • 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.)

Other announcements and group discussion (20 minutes)

  • Availability of other software and example models
  • People's reactions and group discussion




Working Group cochairs organizing this event:

  • Marc Petit (marc-f.petit@edf.fr)
  • Hyokwang Lee (adpc9@partdb.com)
  • Don Brutzman (brutzman@nps.edu)