Anark Corporation Announces OpenFlight Support

By DE Editors

Anark Corporation has announced support for OpenFlight, a 3D visualization format for real-time 3D visualization. Anark Core 2.2 exports OpenFlight data using native OpenFlight Read/Write API's from Presagis, a provider of commercial-off-the-shelf modeling and simulation software.

OpenFlight is a 3D visual database format that has become a defacto standard for the visual simulation industry. Anark added OpenFlight support to Core 2.2 to enable viz-sim application developers to quickly prepare and simplify complex 3D CAD geometry from tools such as like CATIA, Pro/ENGINEER, Inventor, and SolidWorks for use in visual simulation applications.

Transforming 3D CAD geometry into lightweight, yet detailed and realistic models for use in real-time 3D visualization, training, and simulation applications is a costly and labor-intensive process. Now that Anark Core supports OpenFlight, it is much more cost effective for developers to import optimized CAD models directly into the popular modeling tool, Creator, and also into popular 3D Image Generation environments such as Vega Prime and Lyra, according to the company.

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.