Introduction

The current exoTKAD version is 0.1 Beta. It allows you to read and write BRep,STEP and IGES files, changing the display object attributes like color, material, transparency.
Only the Windows version is currently available.

Controls

To control the view, you can use your mouse :
Ctrl+LeftMouseButton : Panning
Ctrl+MiddleMouseButton : Zoom
Ctrl+RightMouseButton : Rotate
MouseWheel : Zoom

If you are opening a CAD file, a new Document is created.
If you are importing a CAD file, the object is inserted in the current active document.

Once you have an Object in the 3d viewer, you can select it and change its attribute with RightMouseButton.

If you click with the RightMouseButton on the view, you can change the view properties.

Troubleshooting

When you start the programm, if a dialog box comes saying that you have problems with your registry entries, check you have the following values:

\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\exotk\exoTKAD\exotkPluginPath :
point to the directory where are located the *.pgi or *.pgid
\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\exotk\exoTKAD\OCCOpenGLFilenameDebug :
only used in DEBUG mode. Should point to the debug version of the TKOpenGL.dll ( OpenCASCADE dll <OpenCASCADE path>\Windows_NT\dlld\TKOpenGl.dll).
\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\exotk\exoTKAD\OCCOpenGLFilename :
only used in Release mode.. Should point to the release version of the TKOpenGL.dll ( OpenCASCADE dll <OpenCASCADE path>\Windows_NT\dll\TKOpenGl.dll).
\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\exotk\exoTKAD\OCCUnitsFilename :
point to the Units.dat file ( OpenCASCADE file : <OpenCASCADE path>\src\UnitsAPI\Units.dat)
\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\exotk\exoTKAD\OCCLexiFilename :
point to the Lexi_Expr.dat file ( OpenCASCADE file : <OpenCASCADE path>\src\UnitsAPI\Lexi_Expr.dat)
\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\exotk\exoTKAD\OCCTexturesDirectory :
point to the directory containing the OpenCASCADE textures ( <OpenCASCADE path>\src\Textures)
\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\exotk\exoTKAD\OCCFontsDirectory:
point to the directory containing the OpenCASCADE fonts ( <OpenCASCADE path>\src\FontMFT)

If you are using the Compiled version, the files and path are in the bin directory.