User:MilindaFernando/gsoc2015 devlog

STEP Viewer Project Development Log

Week 01/05/2015 to 08/05/2015

• I am getting familiar with the source code of libdm and librt.
• Design and Developing Qt GUI for STEP Viewer program

Week 09/05/2015 to 16/05/2015

As Sean mentioned in brlcad-devel Digest, Vol 607, Issue 1

• Look in to myriad of examples in the src/util directory
• Started a sample project which is capable of generating libdm window.

Week 16/05/2015 to 23/05/2015

• Worked on STEP Viewer functionality
• Downloaded the current version of the BRL-CAD code and build it
• Studied the libdm library

Week 23/05/2015 to 30/05/2015

• Start coding StepViewer
• First task (as Sean has mentioned) Try to create a libdm window
• Creation of the libdm window of type X and OGL failed.
• Creation of the libdm window type of null and text succeeded.
• Found that libdm is hard to work with
• No Proper Documentation for the libdm library

Week 30/05/2015 to 7/06/2015

• Refereed on OpenGL
• Created a separate OpenGL Window
• Trying to embed OGL view to a existing Qt window.
• Success fully embedded the OGL view in the main window.

Week 7/06/2015 to Week 14/06/2015

• Development of STEPViewer GUI.
• OpenGL view zoom in/out functionality added
• OpenGL view rotation according to mouse movement functionality added
• Displaying the 3D axis system in OpenGL view.
• Current Code can be found at https://bitbucket.org/milindasf/stepviewer/src
• Referring on how to use BRLCAD functionality to browse the triangles in a STEP file and visualize them in the OGL viewer.