A short introduction

Java 3d Cad -program is a 3d wireframe drafting program. Currently user can create lines, polylines and insert other objects; just now jpg's, gifs and Java 3d Cad -created 3d models, as blocks. Also a rudimentary dxf support is included.

User can view objects from directly above, under, left, right, front and back, in a sort of axonometric view and in perspective view.

Models can be saved and reloaded. If models are used as inserted blocks, the blocks are not saved within the main model; only the info of the file is kept there, and when the main model is reopened, the blocks are reloaded (changes to them are then at once visible).

Quite a few things are still missing or incomplete; e.g. drafting in different view directions is still poorly supported.

Also the code has a rather long history behind it so Java is not used in an optimum way; the starting point was a Turbo Basic program in '80s, that I have then partially transferred to Java. The path has also been a bit problematic - first coding in usual text editors, then in IBM Visual Age, now transferred to Borland Jbuilder 5.

The java version is 1.3.1 from Sun/Blackdown. The developing environment is Linux, KDE 1.something. (I had serious problems in win95 in an essential part of the program - this disappeared in Linux, so... - the problme could be my own misunderstanding of screen updates, though...).

Help files or system is under development, perhaps I'll get it done one of these days...

If anybody is interested in helping or participating in any way, please feel free to contact me.

Have fun,
Seppo Syrjl