Coindesigner 1.3 review

Coindesigner is a RAD (rapid application development) system to build 3D applications using Coin3D openInventor. Coindesigner allo

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Jose M. Espadero

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Coindesigner is a RAD (rapid application development) system to build 3D applications using Coin3D openInventor.

Coindesigner allows to write simple 3D scenarios just using drag&drop, so users require no programming acknoledges at all to use it.

Coindesigner is a system equivalent to glade or qt-designer, where we can choose components from the openInventor toolkit, add them somewhere in our scene and configure them in a very easy way... and all changes are applied to the scene on the fly!

Here are some key features of "Coindesigner":
Reads and write scenes in native openInventor file format
Can import geometry from VRML, 3ds, DXF, OFF (from geomview), SMF, sphere trees .SPH and XYZ point clouds file formats.
Can export geometry to file formats VRML2, SMF, OBJ, STL, OFF y XYZ.
It allows to visualize volumetric data (such as medical CT) if SIM Voleon is available in your system.
Makes some basic geometrical operations, as mesh reduction (with QSLIM) and convex hull computation.
It includes cdsview, an minimalistic external viewer that allows you to view and distribute scenes without need of coindesigner.
Provides helpers to define colors (with QColorDialog), file paths (with QFileDialog), menus for enumerated types and much more...
Allows to use manips to configure Lights and Transform nodes. Just use the right mouse button to interchange between those nodes and their manip!
GUI has been translated to English, Spanish and Portuguese
Includes the complete coin reference and several tutorials directly brownsables from the application.
It's as multiplatform as coin3d and Qt are. It works under Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
It's open source released under GPL license.

Requirements:
Coin3D libraries
Qt SDK

What's New in This Release:
New viewers window classes, with menus and statusbar
Some info about current node in status bar (as face counts, centroids)
Info about mfields size in theirs property names
New nodes are inserted after current node, not at the end of parent
Support for get Info about picked point
Support for erase faces of indexedfaceset
Support for turn face orientation of indexedfaceset
Bugfix: Avoid to pick on the picking mark
Bugfix: mfield_editor layout
Bugfix: Ensure new inserted nodes are showed in the scene graph