3D model editor

[Jayesh Salvi]

Hi all,

I have been working on a WebGL project for couple months - a 3D model editor. 

Now it's at a point where it sucks less. So please check it out.

http://3dtin.com

It runs best in Chromium. It will run in Firefox, but will get sluggish after a while (It will be worse with OSMesa).

Any feedback is welcome.

Thanks,
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Jayesh

[Lindsay Kay]

This is very cool Jayesh! 

One thing I always found useful in drawing/CAD tools was a bunch of orthographic views off to the side of the UI - for one thing, they help align things, maybe with a grid.

How about an export feature, to download models, as .DAE or .OBJ and .MTL?

cheers,

Lindsay

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[Jayesh Salvi]

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Jayesh

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Lindsay Kay <linds...@xeolabs.com> wrote:

This is very cool Jayesh! 

One thing I always found useful in drawing/CAD tools was a bunch of orthographic views off to the side of the UI - for one thing, they help align things, maybe with a grid.

Yeah orthographic is more suitable view for CAD tools. Currently 3DTin has perspective projection, but orthographics is on my todo list too.

 

How about an export feature, to download models, as .DAE or .OBJ and .MTL?

Collada (.dae) is on the list.

[m...@tathagata.net]

Pretty cool! You can try something like SketchUp, where you can sketch
a profile and drag extrude it, though I think SketchUp has a patent on
that (but should be easy to circumvent - just don't use the mouse to
drag the profile, instead use a dialog to specify the extrude length).
Also a toggle between a 2d sketch view (to draw the profile) and the
3d view, will be helpful.

Nice effort though.

-Tathagata

[Jayesh Salvi]

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Jayesh

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:41 PM, m...@tathagata.net <m...@tathagata.net> wrote:

Pretty cool! You can try something like SketchUp, where you can sketch
a profile and drag extrude it, though I think SketchUp has a patent on
that (but should be easy to circumvent - just don't use the mouse to
drag the profile, instead use a dialog to specify the extrude length).

The extrude feature is implemented. Press the extrude icon (2nd from left) or press "e" from keyboard. Then take the mouse to face of any geometry, click and drag.

 

Also a toggle between a 2d sketch view (to draw the profile) and the
3d view, will be helpful.

There is no explicit 2D view, but there are shortcuts for top, bottom, left, right, front and back view. Press "Ctrl+h" or press the ? icon on the top panel, to look at all available options.

[Henrik Bennetsen]

Very nice work Jayesh.

I love the idea of building tools to give the HTML5/WebGL space the means to build itself.

Henrik

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[Jayesh Salvi]

>
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Lindsay Kay <linds...@xeolabs.com> wrote:
>>
>> This is very cool Jayesh! 
>> One thing I always found useful in drawing/CAD tools was a bunch of
>> orthographic views off to the side of the UI - for one thing, they help
>> align things, maybe with a grid.
>
> Yeah orthographic is more suitable view for CAD tools. Currently 3DTin has
> perspective projection, but orthographics is on my todo list too.

Just added support for Orthographic projection
http://blog.3dtin.com/orthographic-projection-0