C3D Toolkit is a proprietary cross-platform geometric modeling kit software developed by Russian by C3D Labs (previously part of ASCON Group).[1] It's written in C++ .[2] It can be licensed by other companies for use in their 3D computer graphics software products. The most widely known software in which C3D Toolkit is typically used are computer aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), and computer-aided engineering (CAE) systems.[3]
Original author(s) | ASCON |
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Developer(s) | C3D Labs |
Initial release | 1996 |
Stable release | V2020
/ July 16, 2020 |
Preview release | 110625
/ July 22, 2020 |
Written in | C++, C Sharp, JavaScript |
Operating system | Windows, Mac X, Linux, FreeBSD, Android, iOS |
Platform | Cross-platform, 32- and 64-bit |
Available in | 2 languages: English, Russian |
Type | 3D Software, 3D Modeler, 3D Solver, 3D Vision, 3D Converter, CAD, CAM, CAE, API, Computer-Aided Software Engineering Tools |
License | Proprietary software |
Website | www |
C3D Toolkit provides routines for 3D modeling, 3D constraint solving, polygonal mesh-to-B-rep conversion, 3D visualization, and 3D file conversions etc.
Nikolai Golovanov is a graduate of the Mechanical Engineering department of Bauman Moscow State Technical University as a designer of space launch vehicles. Upon his graduation, he began with the Kolomna Engineering Design bureau, which at the time employed the future founders of ASCON, Alexander Golikov and Tatiana Yankina. While at the bureau, Dr Golovanov developed software for analyzing the strength and stability of shell structures.
In 1989, Alexander Golikov and Tatiana Yankina left Kolomna to start up ASCON as a private company. Although they began with just an electronic drawing board, even then they were already conceiving the idea of three-dimensional parametric modeling. This radical concept eventually changed flat drawings into three-dimensional models. The ASCON founders shared their ideas with Nikolai Golovanov, and in 1996 he moved to take up his current position with ASCON. As of 2012 he was involved in developing algorithms for C3D Toolkit.[4]
In 2012 the earliest version of the C3D Modeller kernel was extracted from KOMPAS-3D CAD. It was later adopted to a range of different platforms and advertised as separate product.[1]
It incorporates five modules:
Boundary representation (B-Rep):
Both representations:
The C3D file format is also used as CAD exchange format,[10] and it is gaining popularity in the global area.
The C3D Solver supports the following constraint types:[12]
The toolkit is developed by using various software design tools and IDEs:[13]
The supported programming languages include:
Since 2013 - the date the company started issuing a license for the toolkit -, several companies have adopted C3D software components for their products, users include:
Recently, C3D Modeler has been adapted to ODA Platform.[27][22][28]
In April 2017, C3D Viewer was launched for end users.[8] The application allows to read 3D models in common formats and write it to the C3D file format. Free version is available.[29][30]