Dear OpenFlipper maintainers,
Are there any plans to eventually support also DXF as an I/O file format in OpenFlipper?
I understand that this is just the question for somebody to write a corresponding plugin. After having successfully compiled and built the OpenFlipper sources from SVN, I could even imagine to write and contribute some basic support myself, at least as far as my own interest in that format goes: supporting plain triangulated meshes without any further "decorations" like normals, textures etc. I would use for that purpose the DIME library (open source, rather old, but still doing its job so far...) which I changed so far that it now works with double numbers instead of float only internally. I guess that this would be a question of a few more hours to get that running on my computer.
Much more of a problem I see in the integration into the OpenFlipper system: How to handle the extra DIME library? How to integrate all that license stuff properly? How to tell that fabulours CMake system that there is now another library to take care of? etc. etc. And since I am having absolutely no clue about that CMake magic, nor with these license subtleties, I would spend probably much more time with these issues than with the actual implementation of the DXF plugin!
Bottom line: from my part, I have no objections against integrating any such DXF plugin into the main OpenFlipper project, but I see many technical and understanding problems on my side in terms of realizing such an integration properly! An alternative for me only would of course be to build such an extension to the OpenFlipper only for myself and my colleagues, for our own work.
Regards, Cornelis Bockemühl
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