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annemarie
exporting a 3Dshape drawn in processing
Feb 8th, 2006, 1:11am  
Hi, and thanks for your help with the import of 3D objects into processing.
However I think that the objects that you can do in opengl/processing are so cool that I want to export them into a 3D program in order to actually print them on a 3D printer.

Can I take a "screenshot" of a 3D shape in processing and then export it and open it in a 3D program such as rhinoceros or formZ?

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JohnG
Re: exporting a 3Dshape drawn in processing
Reply #1 - Feb 8th, 2006, 11:52am  
There is a way that I know of, thanks to v3ga's blog:

http://ogle.eyebeamresearch.org/

This (with the library it sits inside) will pretty much let you take a screenshot of a 3D world if it's being drawn in OpenGL, and let you export the data to 3D formats. And they used it to put data into a 3D printer, so it sounds like exactly the thing you might be looking for.

Edit: Actually after a little experiment, it looks like it might be a bit more complex to use. Processing's OpenGL doesn't use Opengl32.dll like the GLIntercept library is expecting.. so it may not be so useful.
It might be possible to get it working by temporarily replacing your winnt/system32/opengl32.dll with the GLIntercept one. However that's not the safest thing ever to do.
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eskimoblood
Re: exporting a 3Dshape drawn in processing
Reply #2 - Nov 23rd, 2006, 11:49am  
Has someone found a way to get GLIntercept and OGLE work with processing, or an other to export 3d Objects?
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Andreas Köberle {eskimoblood}
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Re: exporting a 3Dshape drawn in processing
Reply #3 - Nov 23rd, 2006, 2:41pm  
http://www.michaelang.com/3d-printing-from-processing/

haven't tried it myself yet, hth!
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eskimoblood
Re: exporting a 3Dshape drawn in processing
Reply #4 - Nov 23rd, 2006, 3:23pm  
Ok, I had put the opengl32.dll in the wrong folder. Now I've got an output but my sketch is crashing. Maybe I figure it out in the next days.
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