Ubuntu Manpage: SceneViewer - 3d editor and viewer for Inventor scenes

Provided by: inventor-clients_2.1.5-10-24_amd64

NAME

       SceneViewer - 3d editor and viewer for Inventor scenes

SYNOPSIS

       SceneViewer [-e env_file] [file]

DESCRIPTION

SceneViewer is a program for viewing and interacting with Inventor scene graph files (the
SGI 3D file format standard). SceneViewer was written to demonstrate Inventor features,
and serves as the basis for the IRIS Explorer Render Module.

When SceneViewer is run, a window appears containing the Inventor examiner viewer and a
menu bar. The viewer allows the user to interactively change the view of the scene through
direct manipulation, or indirect slider and push button controls. The menu bar contains
the following menus:

File
This menu supports file reading and writing, and launches a dialog for printing to
a printer or to PostScript file.

Edit
This menu enables copy and paste of 3D data, selecting all objects, and deleting
the currently selected objects.

Viewing
This menu controls viewing options. It allows different viewing paradigms to be
employed: the examiner viewer which provides a virtual trackball interface, the
fly-through viewer for traveling through expansive data sets, the walk viewer for
architectural walk-throughs, and the plane viewer for orthographic projections.
The menu also enables different types of transparency, fog effects, antialiasing,
and background color controls.

Selection
This menu allows the different selection policies to be demonstrated. A selection
policy determines how objects get added and removed from the collection of selected
objects.

Editors
This menu launches the material editor and transform sliders. An object must be
selected for the menu to be active.

Manips
This menu allows different manipulators to act on the current selection, including
the trackball, handle box, jack, center ball, and transform box. Manipulators can
also be turned off, in which case selected objects are surrounded with a red
wireframe box highlight.

Lights
This menu allows directional, point, and spot lights to be created and edited. It
also allows lights to be turned on and off.

For more information on how to use the viewers and editors employed by the scene viewer,
please see SceneViewer's runtime help cards.

SOURCE CODE

       Note that the source code to SceneViewer comes with the Open Inventor 3d Toolkit.

OPTIONS

       The following command line options are allowed:

       -e env_file
              Read  the  passed  environment  file,  and  use the lights, camera, and environment
              settings found there.

FILES