i have not played with it yet, but this just came thru the coin3d(openinventor) list. thought some might be interested. --- Colin Dunlop <colin@> wrote: > From: "Colin Dunlop" <colin@> > To: "Coin Discuss \(E-mail\)" <coin-discuss@> > Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:55:14 +0100 > Subject: [coin-discuss] Free Viewer based on Coin2 > > > Hi there, > > A while ago somebody asked if there was a free WRL > viewer about. MVE has released a free viewer for the > geoscience community and this will load WRL's in version > 1.1 in around three months time - but until then it > loads DXF, among other formats. Other formats in the > pipeline for 1.1 are various DEM formats, 3DS and FLT. > > If anybody is interested in seeing Coin in action then > this very basic vanilla 1.0 viewer uses Coin2 and SoQt, > and works very well on Windows, Irix64 and Linux. The 1.1 > version will bring various rendering speedups for large > model support. > > Any feedback appreciated on this first public release. > > Thanks to all the dud[s,esses]@sim for their help > in getting this project off the ground and continued > support over the last year. > > <speel> > We would like to announce 4DVista, a new cross platform > geo-visualization package from Midland Valley. It is available now for > free download from our > webite: > > http://www.mve.com/Home/Software/4DVista/Download > > Please take a look at the example earth models at: > > http://www.mve.com/Home/Software/4DVista/Download?view=viewSampleData > > Enjoy 4DVista - of course we're interested in your feedback. We're > planning lots of exciting and diverse technical functionality for the > next release including georeferenced satellite images. > > The Windows version is available today. Linux and SGI versions should > be available in the next couple of weeks at our website > </speel> > > Enjoy, > > Colin > > ===== phrostie Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of DOS and danced the skies on Linux silvered wings. http://pfrostie.freeservers.com/cad-tastrafy/ //www.freelists.org/webpage/cad-linux __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com