[vtk-developers] Assimp integration

[Sean McBride]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 22:15:15 +0000, Milef, Nicholas Boris said:

>I integrated Assimp into VTK as part of a project. For those unfamiliar,
>it's a 3D model loader library that imports many file formats (and
>exports a few). It also has optional post-processing features for
>simplifying/cleaning up meshes. Would this be of any use in VTK?
>
>I needed to integrate it for my specific case because I needed to use
>Collada since it supported vertex weights (and none of the current VTK
>import formats support this).

Nick,

I've never heard of Assimp, but it looks pretty cool and useful for our own uses of VTK.  We use VTK to read ply and stl files, and if VTK could read even more formats via this library that'd be great, since users tend to have all sorts of wacky files.

Cheers,

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