Open Inventor Course src subtree; DT: src/tutorials/custEducation/openInventor/

Open Inventor Course source subtree

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This subtree contains the example code for the SGI Open Inventor Course. This course is intended for use with Inventor 2.0 or later.

The following subdirectories are included:

components:
contains a viewer supplied by the application and a material Editor in its own separate window.
database:
contains 3 programs, each of which reads in a scene, and displays in either an Examiner Viewer or a Render Area, plus Inventor V2.0 and V1.0 .iv files.
interaction:
contains 5 .aiff sound files, 4 V2.0 .iv files, 6 sample programs, and 4 lab-solution programs.
printing:
program implements easy printing of a .iv file with an SoXtPrintDialog component.
text:
3 programs render command line arguments as
1. 2D text,
2. 3D text,
3. fancy 3D text with a profile and different materials for the front, back, and sides,
and displays same in an Examiner Viewer. Also includes 3 V2.0 .iv files.
texture:
a directory of texture files including 7 V2.0 and 2 V1.0 .iv files, and a small rgb file.

Enjoy!

/* David Marsland                       "On Spaceship Earth       *
 * MTS, Worldwide Education R&D          there are no passengers, *
 * Silicon Graphics Computer Systems     only crew."              *
 * Internet: mars@csd.sgi.com                 Buckminster Fuller  */

The example programs have been compiled under Irix 5.3. If your system is running 5.2, you will need to first do "make clobber" before executing "make".

Type:

make 		// to compile all examples
make clobber    // to remove all executables

The following lines were included in a .login file for this directory which, in the class structure was created to be it's own account:

# This will make inventor programs run with the debugging library
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/lib/InventorDebug
# to used the optimized library instead, unsetenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH

setenv MODELS /usr/share/data/models
setenv IMAGES /usr/share/data/images
setenv MATERIALS /usr/share/data/materials
setenv MENTOR /usr/share/src/Inventor/examples/Mentor/C++

alias sv /usr/demos/Inventor/SceneViewer
alias gv /usr/demos/Inventor/gview

and the following lines were in a .Xdefaults file:

Inventor*background:                            #c1c1c1
*useSchemes:    all
*sgiLook:       true

If you want to have your environment be EXACTLY the way it was setup for this tree in the OpenInventor class, put the .login lines in your own .login (or equivalent file), and the .Xdefaults lines in your own .Xdefault file. Note that the MODELS, IMAGES, MATERIALS, and MENTOR environment variables indicate the expectation that the inventor_eoe.data.sample, and the inventor_dev.src.sample subsystems are loaded.

There is an English Open Inventor Course listing inside the The Classroom "Customer Training Camp" page on Silicon Surf as well as the section on:

Instructor-led Courses

This section lists Silicon Graphics Education Centers around the world. If you need education information for a country not listed here, please contact your local sales office.

Education Catalog - North America

Schulungsprogramm Deutschland

Le Catalogue Français de Formation

Catálogo de Cursos - España

Education Catalog - UK

Education Catalog - Japan

OR, ...