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Greg,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the note/inquiry. What sort of update or links are you referring to?</div><div><br></div><div>We're still working on our STEP convertor effort for BRL-CAD if that's what you're interested in. I'd be more than willing to help set you up if you are interested in contributing developer resources to the task. It's our #1 development priority (tightly coupled with our BREP efforts) this year and next, receiving a lot of attention. It's also still a huge multiple man-year effort that has a couple years remaining for complete full integration and completion. Mainly a huge effort because of the BREP work required to properly/fully support arbitrary geometry formats.</div><div><br></div><div>Given our current developer resources and open source participation, I don't expect us rolling the converter out for public use until sometimes next fiscal year. We're also interested in having someone work on a collada and/or x3d conversion capability, but that's not presently on our table given the BREP and STEP tasks. But again, if someone wants to contribute the manpower to work that area, I'd certainly help out as much as I could.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers!</div><div>Sean</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> <br><div><div>On May 20, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Greg Howes wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="899050720-20052008">Christopher,</span></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="899050720-20052008"></span></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="899050720-20052008">I was researching X3D-CAD vs. STEP and came across this old post by you</span></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="899050720-20052008"></span></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="899050720-20052008"><a href="https://www.email-lists.org/pipermail/freearchitecture/2006-May/000079.html">https://www.email-lists.org/pipermail/freearchitecture/2006-May/000079.html</a></span></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="899050720-20052008"></span></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="899050720-20052008">Any updates or links you can point me to?</span></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="899050720-20052008"></span></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="899050720-20052008">I work in architecture and with CAD-CAM-CNC home manufacturers and we are looking at front end visualization solutions using optimized (reduced) files for real-time online visualization and are exploring collada and x3d solutions. I know many of the people in web3d.org and the collada groups.</span></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="899050720-20052008"></span></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="899050720-20052008">Hope to hear from you.</span></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="899050720-20052008"></span></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="899050720-20052008">Regards,</span></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="899050720-20052008"></span></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="899050720-20052008">Greg Howes</span></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="899050720-20052008">San Francisco</span></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="899050720-20052008"></span></font> </div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>