• Source: C3D Toolkit

C3D Toolkit is a proprietary cross-platform geometric modeling kit software developed by Russian C3D Labs (previously part of ASCON Group). It's written in C++ . It can be licensed by other companies for use in their 3D computer graphics software products. The most widely known software in which C3D Toolkit is typically used are computer aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), and computer-aided engineering (CAE) systems.
C3D Toolkit provides routines for 3D modeling, 3D constraint solving, polygonal mesh-to-B-rep conversion, 3D visualization, and 3D file conversions etc.




History


Nikolai Golovanov is a graduate of the Mechanical Engineering department of Bauman Moscow State Technical University as a designer of space launch vehicles. Upon his graduation, he began with the Kolomna Engineering Design bureau, which at the time employed the future founders of ASCON, Alexander Golikov and Tatiana Yankina. While at the bureau, Dr Golovanov developed software for analyzing the strength and stability of shell structures.
In 1989, Alexander Golikov and Tatiana Yankina left Kolomna to start up ASCON as a private company. Although they began with just an electronic drawing board, even then they were already conceiving the idea of three-dimensional parametric modeling. This radical concept eventually changed flat drawings into three-dimensional models. The ASCON founders shared their ideas with Nikolai Golovanov, and in 1996 he moved to take up his current position with ASCON. As of 2012 he was involved in developing algorithms for C3D Toolkit.
In 2012 the earliest version of the C3D Modeller kernel was extracted from KOMPAS-3D CAD. It was later adopted to a range of different platforms and advertised as separate product.




Overview


It incorporates five modules:

C3D Modeler constructs geometric models, generates flat projections of models, performs triangulations, calculates the inertial characteristics of models, and determines whether collisions occur between the elements of models;
C3D Modeler for ODA enables advanced 3D modeling operations through the ODA's standard "OdDb3DSolid" API from the Open Design Alliance;
C3D Solver makes connections between the elements of geometric models, and considers the geometric constraints of models being edited;
C3D B-Shaper converts polygonal models to boundary representation (B-rep) bodies;
C3D Vision controls the quality of rendering for 3D models using mathematical apparatus and software, and the workstation hardware;
C3D Converter reads and writes geometric models in a variety of standard exchange formats.




Features






Development






Applications


Since 2013 - the date the company started issuing a license for the toolkit -, several companies have adopted C3D software components for their products, users include:

Recently, C3D Modeler has been adapted to ODA Platform.
In April 2017, C3D Viewer was launched for end users. The application allows to read 3D models in common formats and write it to the C3D file format. Free version is available.




See also


CAD standards
Computer-aided technologies
Computer-aided design
Computer-aided manufacturing
Computer-aided engineering
Geometric modeling kernel
Geometric modeling
Solid modeling
Boundary representation




References






External links


Official website

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• C3D Toolkit
• Computer-aided design
• List of file formats
• Geometric constraint solving
• WebAssembly
• CAD data exchange