Hello can anyone please let me know a function for 3D printing in OpenGL. I had to print a string and was using glutBitmapCharacter() but this is not printing it.
Thankx in advance. :)
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OpenGL doesn't handle 3D printing. You may wish to look into a MakerBot.
On a more serious note I assume you meant extruded text rendering. Take a look at some of these.
genpfault
2010-05-21 22:41:22
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You probably meant representing the text in 3D... No, OpenGL does not have a way of doing it natively, but using some extra well known libraries you can achieve the effect. There's an exact tutorial on that on NeHe.
Kornel Kisielewicz
2010-05-21 22:43:50
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This is a very good tutorial (link removed as it eventually pointed to a malware site) (video and text version). There are source files: text3d.h/cpp, charsets.
You can include this files to your project. After that you can draw 2d/3d text:
t3dDraw3D("My text", 0, 0, 0.2f);
It's very easy to use.
Warning: I had a problem with this site few times (some AV warnings and redirects - propably DNS system of this site has been hacked). You can see some information of security risk. IT'S FAKE! If you have this fake infos, type address: http: // www . videotutorialsrock . com , next click Lesson 8: Drawing Text.
(sorry for ma bad English)
vizzdoom
2010-05-21 23:42:07
Thankx for the help :)
Nagaraj Tantri
2010-05-22 00:07:50