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A. Craig West

Sat, Apr 18, 2020 7:08 PM

I just noticed today that Tinkercad has a new export format, GLB. It
might be an idea to support importing those, the stl's that thing
generates are TERRIBLE. I am going to look over the format now to see
how bad it is to implement (assuming we don't have it already)
-Craig

I just noticed today that Tinkercad has a new export format, GLB. It might be an idea to support importing those, the stl's that thing generates are TERRIBLE. I am going to look over the format now to see how bad it is to implement (assuming we don't have it already) -Craig

Torsten Paul

Sat, Apr 18, 2020 7:29 PM

That is glTF from Khronos (https://www.khronos.org/gltf/).

As this exists for a while now, there might be some usable
libraries. When I looked at it some time ago, it was not
a good fit for OpenSCAD output due to some restrictions of
the format which is very much focused on full asset storage
for 3D scenes. That might not be relevant anymore with the
new glTF 2.0 version.

ciao,
Torsten.

That is glTF from Khronos (https://www.khronos.org/gltf/). As this exists for a while now, there might be some usable libraries. When I looked at it some time ago, it was not a good fit for OpenSCAD output due to some restrictions of the format which is very much focused on full asset storage for 3D scenes. That might not be relevant anymore with the new glTF 2.0 version. ciao, Torsten.