[cad-linux] Re: GraphiteOne Q&A

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>       But they, OpenCascade & Coin3d, are basically two totally different
> things. OpenCascade is a solids modelling kernel that just happens to
> have some visualisation stuff tacked onto the back of it whilst Coin3d
> is a high performance scencegraph based visualisation system suitable
> for doing things such as tank and flight simulators. I can remember
> seeing something on the OpenCascade, OC, forums about  visualisation
> speed and OC not being the best in that respect. Someone wrote some
> benchmarks comparing OC with another library and a hand coded "best
> case" setup and OC lagged quite a bit, something like 1/10th of the
> triangles throughput of the hand coded stuff. What is needed is
> basically a merging of these two, OC & Coin, systems.
>
>       In terms of books, as far as I know, there is nothing. Consulting and
> training is how Matra make money off of OC hence I wouldn't expect there
> to be something that would cut into this. Any recommendations on the
> Coin books? I've just had a look on their website and there is the stuff
> on the Documentation page, any comments on these and any others?
>
>       Regards,
>               Andrew
there are a number of books, but the two most recommended are Inventor Mentor 
and InventorToolmaker(i think)  there are online versions of these, but it 
was worth it to me to have it printed and bound.

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