Meshing out Rhino files for Rhino3DM.JS

Rhino Developer
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Hey All,

I took a punt at writing a Rhino3DM.JS page, which works well enough, but, if the file was not saved with a mesh of some sort it wont load.

I thought saw a post that this was now a possible thing for rhino3dm? Any pointers?

here is a clip of how far i got so far (with meshed files / aka saved in some preview mode.)

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Hi @chris.botha,

Rhino3dm.js uses openNURBS. And openNURBS does not provide a method to tesselate, or mesh, Breps.

Thus, if you want a mesh representation of a Brep, you’ll have need to save the .3dm file with render meshes already cached on Breps.

If you’re more ambitious, you might looking to using Rhino.Compute to tesselate Breps.

– Dale

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Thanks @dale will look into it.