One useful 3D plugin is almost finished - the IDF plugin. For people who use IDF this plugin allows the user to preview the model in the 3D model data dialogs. Here is an example of an actual IDF component outline in the preview panel:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By_XTJN-s8aXNWxwa0pWUGd6Mms/view?usp=sharing The normals are still abnormal since I need to write code to calculate the normals and there's still a lot of cleaning up to do plus work to do on versioning libraries and the plugins and their API, but this is progress. Once the IDF plugin is ready I'll tidy up the code in preparation for an initial merge. This could still take quite a few weeks to finish since there's a lot of detail to address regarding library names and versioning and how to enforce plugin API versioning and I also want to add a tutorial for building 3D plugins out-of-tree. From there I go on to converting the legacy VRML and X3D parsers into 3D plugins and at that point we will have most of the preview functionality covered and the remaining improvements will depend on the eventual merge of the new 3DViewer. - Cirilo
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