"Marc Santhoff" <m.santhoff-zqrnuxuvxa0b1svskn2...@public.gmane.org> wrote in message news:1229657957.329.5.ca...@localhost.das.netz... <SNIP>>> I was thinking more along the lines of perhaps creating a compatible dll >> that could be used for Pascal/Delphi, and if necessary, flattening when >> necessary method calls to plain functions, etc. >> >> I'm sure this sort of thing has been done before as you can use it under >> Visual Basic, Java, C#, Python, Ruby. > > I *think* that could be doable, I'm not so sure currently if there were > general problems using C++ or if it had to do with ref-counted objects, > memory management, or maybe only forms and graphical objects. > > Hopefully someone else can speak up here ... > >> I have seen various people create a single dll containing the OpenCASCADE >> routines, but I am not sure how. >> >> One person has made >> >> "NaroCAD, a free open source parametric modeling CAD application with C#: >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/narocad/. The project contains a >> .Net(C++/CLI) wrapper layer and also a wrapper code generator >> application, >> you can generate your own wrappers in the language you want. >> The OCC 6.3.0 wrappers are compiled under one assembly named >> OCWrappers.dll." >> >> See the thread below >> http://www.opencascade.org/org/forum/thread_14766/ > > There is FreeCAD, too. If all people starting a CAD program on sf.net > would unite, that would be quite enough manpower to build a complete > free CAD application in three months. ;) > > Something similar, hopefully explaning what you need: > > http://info.borland.com/borlandcpp/papers/bc360/ > > HTH, > Marc
Hi Marc, To be honest, I am really only interested in the 3d STEP model import/export, and how to create the underlying meshes, etc. prior to the export, and back again from the import operation. I am hoping this will simplify things quite a bit :-) cheers, Paul
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