On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:26:28 -0700 (PDT), larryrozer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>On Jul 13, 3:30 pm, "nitnit" <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> To no one in particular.
>> I'm trying to figure out what's going on,
>> not tell anyone what is.
>>
>> I remember seeing quite a lot of discussion at the, v2~v3, time
>> regarding the loss of Alias purchased AGLib usage and development
>> of their current geometry engine on McNeel's Rhino forum. Efforts
>> to search for any of those old discussions have been fruitless.
>> Archives hosed? Unfortunate if so.
>>
>> If you can find any of the old discussions ...?
>>
>> Regarding OpenNURBS, I've never paid much attention to it.
>>
>> http://www.opennurbs.org/index.htm
>> openNURBS is an open source toolkit for reading and writing models
>> in the 3DM format. Our full-featured development platform is
Rhino.http://www.opennurbs.org/background.htm
>> The openNURBS Initiative was founded by Robert McNeel & Associates
>> in January 2000, with the sole purpose of providing CAD, CAM, CAE,
>> and computer graphics software users reliable methods for
transferring
>> 3-D geometry between applications.http://www.opennurbs.org/faq.htm
>> Who is funding the openNURBS Initiative and why?
>> Robert McNeel & Associates. They feel that the 3-D market is stifled
>> because of the inability to reliably transfer 3-D geometry between
>> applications. The problem is too big for us to solve alone. By
funding
>> the operating cost of openNURBS, others will get involved in the
toolkit
>> design and development. It will be a much cheaper and effective way
to
>> solve the problem.
>>
>> It would appear that it is not intended to be a "kernel", e.g. geometry
>> creation and manipulation functions. True? ...
>>
>> news:404f5ffd$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> The openNURBS toolkit does not contain any functions or cl*****
>> to assist in calculating intersections of curves or surfaces.
>> You will have to come up with your own intersector or find a 3rd
>> party product to use.
>>
>> Dale Fugier
>> Robert McNeel & Associates
>
>McNeel use to license the AG LIb geometry kernel from Alias. A good
>deal of Rhino was built on this kernel. There came a time when Alias
>didn't want to license it to McNeel anymore and because Bob McNeel
>signed a bad contract with Alias, McNeel had to yank out all the code
>from AG Lib. Now McNeel is scared to license any components for Rhino
>so Rhino develops at a snails pace as they try and do it all
>themselves. Dumb move. So is ignoring the mechanical market.
Unlike banquercadcam with it's free demo .....
http://www.geocities.com/banquercadcam/
>Jon Banquer
>San Diego, CA
>http://jonbanquer.baywords.com/
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