Good afternoon,
After one week from the creation date of the ticket, I still have no answer from the owner of 3D-UI-XML3D (represented by Torsten Spieldenner).
I'm going to forward this issue to Philipp Slusallek, Project Leader of "Chp - WebUI".
Thanks
Regards,
Marco Terrinoni

PS: a new ticket WEB-367 has already been created.

Good morning,

sorry for the delay concerning the answer to your ticket. I had to gather some information about possible converter tool chains to convert CAD to XML3D, and here is the result:

Currently, there is no converter that allows to convert CAD data directly to XML3D. Most CAD tools, however, provide an exporter to COLLADA format. The task to then convert COLLADA to XML3D is performed by our Asset Server ATLAS, that is publicly available on GitHub:

https://github.com/dfki-asr/atlas-server
https://github.com/dfki-asr/atlas-worker

In fact, ATLAS is a bit more than just a converter. It's rather a storage that server that allows to upload model data in different formats, and request it afterwards in various output formats. In the GitHub version above, that will also be made available as "Asset Storage SE" in FI CONTENT, import of COLLADA files and export to XML3D is supported. Thus in the case of CAD data, this would mean that would first have to export the CAD data to COLLADA, using the exporters of the CAD tools, and then upload the resulting COLLADA file to ATLAS, which will then provide you with a link from which you can reference the XML3D version of the model from within your XML3D application.

In addition to the GitHub resources above, there will also be more guides in the FI CONTENT catalog in the near future. We plan to have them published in the next few weeks.

Thank you Torsten!
I'm going to forward your answer to the startup team.
Thanks for your cooperation.
Best regards,
Marco

Let me add to this, that the asset server is a new service-based approach to conversion instead of the traditional offline conversion of files. The current version of AssetServer is our first step in that direction. It is an open architecture that can be extended for other input formats (as well as output formats where needed). There are also a number of other directions we want to take AssetServer in the future. We would be more than happy to have others to contribute to that activity. The code is open to anyone to contribute where needed and XML3D is not really a difficult format to convert to.

Best,
Philipp

Thank you Philipp!
BR,
Marco