ExchangePolygonicaBridge

Installation

• Set the POLYGONICA_DIR environment variable to the base directory of your Polygonica installation
• Set the HEXCHANGE_INSTALL_DIR environment variable to the base directory of your HOOPS Exchange installation
• Open TranslateToPGSolids project file, don't upgrade but keep it as VS2015 (VC14)
• Build and run

Todo

• Support linux/macosx
• Support edges - do not need at this time
• Add app data to PG entities that point to PRC data
• Support textures
• Benchmark performance for arboleda
• Check status returns
• Document functions
• Add gaurd on name object
• Add C# sample project running the unmanaged bridge.
• Suppport transparency (water bottle)
• Support materials with specular and ambient colors
• Wrap bridge as class? - TBD
• Properly set triangle handedness of elbows in arboleda-plumb

Doing

• Clean up IndicesPerFaceAsTriangles (Jonathan)
• Supported textured faces - ignore textures but keep triangles (Jonathan)

Done

• Some leaf nodes in arobleda-plumb names are not accessible (jonathan)
• When selecting a region based on the app_data, other parts get highlighted (jonathan)
• Port to a standalone project (Peter)
• Handle Normals
• Get Arboleda Plumb dataset working (Jonathan)
• Handle colors defined as materials (currently only using the defuse channel)
• Handle cascading colors
• Use indexed styles instead of creating a new style for every part
• Support faces - do so with regions (PTEntityGroups), important for CAE
• Fixed bug in getName()
• Remove use of global m_sTessData
• Add names & paths to parts in app data "Model/SubAssem/bearing"
• Instancing
• Create destructor for path to free memory in the paths

Roadmap

• May 2022 - Development
• June 2022 - Document, Code Review, Cleanup, & Testing
• July 2022 - Release