NAME

       foreignfilesupport - Foreign File Format Support This is a page describing foreign file format support in
       Coin.

       Formats supported so far:

       • STL / Stereolithography files (.stl)

       The  SoSTLFileKit server as a first example on how foreign file format support can be implemented through
       the SoForeignFileKit interface nodekit. For STL, the file format is so trivial that it maps directly into
       a few Open Inventor nodes. For other file formats, the direct mapping might not be possible or  desirable
       (maybe  important  information  will  get lost in such a conversion), and the implementor might choose to
       implement a set of internal custom nodes for doing the rendering (and applying the  other  actions),  and
       choose  to first do pure Open Inventor organization when the node kit is asked to write its contents as a
       scene graph.

       FIXME: Document autoloading when implemented and tested

       See Also:
           SoForeignFileKit, SoSTLFileKit

Version 4.0.0a                                   Wed Feb 26 2014                           foreignfilesupport(3)