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2011-05 - Open CASCADE notes

6.5.0 Visualization Highlights. Part2

23:02 / BY Roman Lygin
Integrating new gradient support I noticed that the Visual3d_Layer class has been extended to contain multiple items called Visual3d_LayerItem. Exploring this further I realized that this was a way to offer an extensible way to support multiple user-defined objects. One of these is a color scale in a 3D view defined as V3d_ColorScaleLayerItem subclass.Experimenting with this new concept I went on to redefine...

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6.5.0 Visualization Highlights. Part1

22:41 / BY Roman Lygin
Open CASCADE 6.5.0 has introduced a few nice (undocumented, as often) features in its Visualization module and I'm going to highlight a couple of them today. Even if the version 6.5.0 made some mixed impressions (with regressions in BRepMesh being most unpleasant ones), visualization was really nice. So kudos to the involved folks!When migrating CAD Exchanger to 6.5.0 I wanted to rework the...

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