On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Thomas Paviot wrote: > It's completely possible to implement your idea. Actually, if you already > have good skills in Django, it's something you can achieve within only a few > hours. For someone with good Django/pythonOCC skills, it's not more than two > hours to have something running and a material ready to convince your boss.
I made something like this with the cherrypy web framework. I was really excited because I thought I was making the first web framework that imported a CAD geometry kernel. Maybe not :-). http://designfiles.org/skdb/web/web.py To see it in action: http://designfiles.org:8081/package/lego/ Basically, it's an open source hardware repository built on top of cherrypy and git repositories. Individual hardware projects are stored in individual git repositories, exposed to the web. There's a built-in ability to visualize and re-parameterize the objects, but it's not fully implemented or exposed through the web interface yet. > I'm not sure you have to use the parametric framework. You can simply > develop a python function that takes the 3 parameters and write the STEP > file. You can also have this function in a python script that is launched > from a pipe whenever needed. You can also split the solution on two > different servers : the webserver and the 'cadserver', with a proper data > exchange model/protocol (with RPC/XML for instance). Well, all that stuff > depend on your needs, but everything is possible. Splitting it up into two parts is a good idea. For instance, visualization in pythonOCC still requires an active X11 session, so having that on a separate (virtualized) server is probably a good idea for the time being. Otherwise the page loads would probably be too long. > To go further, I've been thinking for a while on a way to add a network > layer to pythonOCC, over the OCC kernel. The XML/RPC sample was a first > draft on how to exchange geometry, and I wish to go far beyond. We are about > to launch a project untitled 'Network Enabled PythonOCC', and try to think > about implementation of CAD Services/PLM Services/SOA/SaaS etc. It's a > strategic necessity to enable pythonOCC being part of an heterogenous IT > system (well, I confess interoperability issues in the PLM field are my > guilty pleasure!). The implementation part of this work will be supported > by a university. I will explain the details of this project (and 2 other > ones) when it is about to start, in less than a couple of weeks if > everything goes fine. Could you elaborate on the details? - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507 _______________________________________________ Pythonocc-users mailing list Pythonocc-users@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/pythonocc-users
