3D view
The 3D view of FreeCAD is an instance of a Coin3D scenegraph, a library that implements the OpenInventor standard.
By the default the 3D view shows a small coordinate axis, the navigation cube also with a coordinate axis; the grid can be displayed and configured using the Draft Workbench.
Since FreeCAD uses Qt as its graphical toolkit, FreeCAD uses the Quarter library to tie Qt and Coin3D.
It is possible to interact directly with the 3D view from the Python console by using the Python library Pivy.
For more information see the power user documentation:
- Third party libraries
- Scenegraph, description of Coin3D.
- Pivy, usage of Coin3D from the Python console.
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