Windows sockets

Rhino Developer
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Hi,

I’m evaluating the possibility to connect my stand-alone application( c++, Qt ) with Rhino by using windows sockets.

Where can I find an example or documentation on how to use windows sockets in c++ Rhino plugin?

Thank you and best regards,

Tiziano De Gottardo
Virtualgeo srl

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Hi Tiziano,

I know for a fact that we (McNeel) have never written any C++ plug-ins samples that use Windows Sockets.

Why do you want or need to use Window Sockets? What are you trying to do and why?

Thanks,

– Dale

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Hi Dale,

we have a stand-alone software (EasyCUBE PRO) and we would like to connect our software to Rhino via TCP/IP so that we can send and receive data (point clouds and meshes) to/from Rhino.

We already done something similar with AutoCAD. In that situation we implemented and AutoCAD plugin that used Windows Sockets 2 (client part).

Is it possible to do this with Rhino? Do you have any documentation about it?

Thank you and best regards
Tiziano De Gottardo
Virtualgeo srl

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It should be, yes. A Rhino C++ plug-ins is just a Regular DLL using shared MFC DLL.

– Dale