Can somebody recommend a good U3D library?

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I need to put some 3D images into PDF files, and PDF uses Universal 3D (U3D) formats. I don't like the U3D Sourceforge project (basically what Intel released after the ECMA standardization effort).

Does anybody know of good U3D libraries I could use? I'm using C++ on Microsoft Windows, FWIW.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 19 '10 at 16:53

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VCGLib is a mesh processing library that has a U3D exporter and a variety of importers (see http://vcg.sourceforge.net/index.php/Tutorial#File_Formats). MeshLab is a tool built on top of it.

answered Jul 19 '10 at 16:53

Geoff Reedy

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Thanks - I'd run into MeshLab, but hadn't found VCGLib. – David Thornley Jul 19 '10 at 16:57

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 19 '10 at 20:02

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Another answer would be Visual Technology Services with PDF3D (PDF link). I've started evaluating it and I like what I see so far.

answered Jul 19 '10 at 20:02

David Thornley

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sergiol · Answer 3 · 2011-01-19T21:27:51.200

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I agree with your position of not liking the U3D sourceforge project. People at my company is having problems with it when exporting large models: it runs out of memory.

The project has explicitly stated that it has memory issues on its TODO list and is dead since 2007, so I strongly recommend you to go elsewhere.

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answered Jan 13 '11 at 01:57

sergiol

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There is no elsewhere, as far as I can tell. There's the sourceforge project, and people who put wrappers on the sourceforge project. Moreover, I need U3D to embed three-dimensional images into PDFs. The situation isn't ideal, but I really don't know of an alternative way to put 3D into PDFs without using that software. – David Thornley Jan 19 '11 at 22:15
I even posted this question here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4676303/exporting-u3d-pdf3d-from-visual-c – sergiol Jan 24 '11 at 15:44

Can somebody recommend a good U3D library?

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