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December 18, 2024

Creating a console application to compress drawing files in 10 minutes

A user asked me this morning if there is any program in Digi3D.NET that can be called from a BAT to compress multiple drawing files simultaneously. That program does not exist, but as it is very easy to program .NET applications that use the engine of Digi3D.NET we can

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December 18, 2024

3D monitor with active polarization

We have discovered a manufacturer that makes a stereoscopic monitor with active polarization, which means that the glasses are passive (they are polarized glasses like the ones you wear to drive the car or the ones you buy to watch 3D movies at the cinema) that weigh absolutely nothing

November 28, 2024

Can't load MDTopX files in Digi3D.NET? Here's how to fix it

If you have upgraded a version of Digi3D.NET it may have disappeared from the list of drawing files when loading reference file the option to load files of MDTopX. This is because the extension of Digi3D.NET that loads files MDTopX previously installed in a folder

November 28, 2024

Reusing Delta workstation hardware in Digi3D.NET

Last week a company that had a Delta photogrammetry station (from the Ukrainian company Geosystems that are now called Analytica Ltd) acquired a license of Digi3D.NET. The idea was to take advantage of the 100% hardware that they had (handwheels and stereoscope)

October 15, 2024

New version of Lot Of Points

A new version of "Lot Of Points" is available in the Microsoft Store. You can now configure classification names and colors. Added support for loading spherical images (not cubemaps) from .E57 files. Added support for dragging and dropping files into the main window

October 10, 2024

Lot Of Points in the Microsoft Store

We have just published the free Lot Of Points application in the Microsoft Store 🙌 It is a smooth, intuitive point cloud viewer that you can control with a mouse or a SpaceMouse from 3DConnexion. It also displays spherical images if the point cloud includes them. You just

June 4, 2024

Creating a Python script to convert complex geometries into points

This morning, someone asked Digi21 technical support whether Digi3D.NET had a command to convert complex geometries into point geometries. There is no such command, but since Digi3D.NET is programmable in Python, we created a short script for them to run in

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January 9, 2024

Topology generalization

The 2024 version of Digi3D.NET adds two tools to the Topology menu to help in situations where topologies must not contain two neighboring polygons (sharing an edge) with the same centroid. You can see these tools in action in the following video:

January 8, 2024

Developing in .NET for the 2024 version of Digi3D.NET

Today 8 January 2024 we have published the version 2024 of Digi3D.NET. This version comes loaded with new features, and if you are a developer there is one that will affect you: The time program is not compatible with .NET Framework , but we have ported it to .NET 8.0 . If you have developed any extension

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March 7, 2023

Topologies in reference files and topology checks between files

Historically, when ordering Digi3D.NET to create a topology, it created it with the geometries of the drawing file. No topology was calculated with the reference files. In Digi3D.NET 2023 we can also create topologies from the reference files. Thanks to this, we have been able to create the

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