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Welcome to Coin3D-SoWin!

Coin3D-SoWin is a Microsoft Win32 GUI library for Coin3D, a high-level, retained-mode toolkit for effective 3D graphics development. It is API compatible with Open Inventor 2.1.

Coin3D-SoWin is Free Software, published under the BSD 3-clause license.

Coin3D Licensing

From 1998 to 2011 Coin3D was developed and maintained by Systems in Motion (SIM), later renamed to Kongsberg SIM, later merged into the parent company Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies (Kongsberg). During this period Coin3D was available under a dual licensing scheme, offering the choice between GPL or a Professional Edition License. Mid-2011, Kongsberg decided to end Coin3D as a commercial product due to diminishing demand and changing business focus. As a service to the user community Kongsberg re-licensed Coin3D under the BSD 3-clause license.

The old web site www.coin3d.org has been shut down, and all requests are redirected to the Bitbucket web site.

Wizzer Works Offering

This project was created to provide a working version of SoWin that is compatible with the Wizzer Works Magic Lantern project. The Bitbucket source is currently broken and is not being maintained in a timely fashion.

This version of SoWin should work independently of Magic Lantern and may be used for projects that are not related to the Wizzer Works technology. The master branch is the original source obtained from the Bitbucket web site. The magiclantern branch contains the modifications made to support Magic Lantern. The modifications are documented at Coin 3.1.3 Modifications.

Build Environment

This library is dependent on the Coin3D project. Please build and install that project prior to building SoWin.

Coin3D-SoWin is built using Microsoft Visual Studio tools. Although earlier Visual Studio projects are provided, currently only the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 project is being maintained and tested. For information on how to build Coin3D-SoWin, see SoWin Build Environment.

Project Members:

• Mark Millard (admin)