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CadImporter Plugin
Warning
The functionality described in this article is not available in the Community SDK edition.
You should upgrade to- Engineering / Sim
SDK edition to use it.
You should upgrade to
Out-of-the-box the Import System includes the CadImporter plugin that allows importing of CAD models.
To use the CadImporter plugin, just load it via the plugin_load console command or the following command line option on the application start-up:
Shell commands
-extern_plugin CadImporter
Compile CadImporter#
If you somehow change or extend the CadImporter plugin, you should recompile it before running to make the changes available.
Open CASCADE sources are required for recompiling the CadImporter plugin:
- Get the Open CASCADE sources.
- Build the Open CASCADE static libraries from the source code according to the instructions.
- Set the path to the compiled libraries in the OCCTROOT environment variable.
- Compile the plugin in one of the following ways:
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By using the build script:
Shell commands
C:\UnigineSDK\source>build.py --plugin CadImporter
- Via Microsoft Visual Studio: go to the <UnigineSDK>\source\plugins\Import\CadImporter, open the cadimporter_vs2015.vcxproj project and build it.
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By using the build script:
Last update:
2021-04-29
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