Re: Graphics on NT Platform

From: Rob Anderson (andersr@hydrogen.abbott.com)
Date: Wed Oct 16 1996 - 03:08:43 EEST


Daniel,

A couple of choices come to mind...

Netscape 3.0 (or any VMRL viewer)

Solidview 2.0 $495 Solid Concepts (805) 257-9300
(uses STL files) (much more then just a viewer)

Hope this helps.

Rob Anderson
Rapid Prototyping Supr.
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>
> Dear RPers:
>
> Do any of you know a good way to be able to take a solid CAD model and
> manipulate it in real time--without having to purchase expensive SGI-type
> hardware? I want to do this with a relatively complex model on the NT
> platform; zoom, spin, pan, etc. The CAD packages that I have seen, so far,
> on NT were rather slow, graphically. I am hoping that there is some type
> of visualization software available that will perform thusly...
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Regards,
>
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> Daniel Anderson
> DePuy Orthopaedics
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> dla@depuy.com
>
> Never put off till tomorrow what
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