SylvainMARIE wrote:
> 
> Adobe PDF is actually shrink-wrapped U3D 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_3D 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_3D))
> You can create 3D PDF from U3D with the movie15 Latex package (see 
> http://www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf-dist/doc/latex/movie15/movie15.pdf
>  
> (http://www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf-dist/doc/latex/movie15/movie15.pdf))

I like being able to rotate models in a PDF - of course you know customers are 
going to complain that it doesn't work when they print it out!
It would be nice not to need to ship all of Latex as well but I'm sure somebody 
will produce a slimmed down library.


> DWF is IMO more interesting : liberal license 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.dwf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.dwf)), 
> source code available, full-featured (but lacks kinematics).

That's interesting, liberal license and Autodesk don't generally go together. 
And just because a format is published doesn't mean it's usable = DXF !

I worked with dwf years ago, we needed people to be able to see the latest 
construction blueprints on the web. DWF seemed to be the worst of all worlds 
back then. You needed a plugin to display the picture but you also had to 
manually create the dwf from the dwg so you could never be sure it was upto 
date. It was easier to just plot the dwg to PDF.
The plugin could redline the drawing - but had no way of sending the changes 
back to the server .

I didn't know that it did 3D now, that could be worth looking into - especially 
if it replaces DXf.

Sorry can't really justify a lot of time on a VRML reader at the moment. But I 
will get back to finishing the DXF writer plugin.

thanks
Martin

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