9.2 Compiled Pictures

A compiled picture is a pre-processed, 3D image in a format that is intended to be processed quicker than the standard format. There are two distinct formats currently supported and these are described in more detail below.

9.2.1 Pre-OpenInventor Format

This was the default compiled picture format prior to the introduction of the OpenInventor scene graph rendering engine. It is still used in AutoMod Standard Graphics mode. This format is currently undocumented.

9.2.2 Embedded Files

With the introduction of the OpenInventor scene graph rendering engine into AutoMod/ACE, the default compiled picture format was changed to be an embedded Inventor file. This format is also used to embed other "foreign" format graphics files, such as VRML, into a cell file.

The format for the type-specific parameters is as follows:

[FileLine<nl>
[...]]
#Inventor END<nl>

where FileLine is a line of source from a supported, embedded, 3D image file and <nl> is the newline sequence. Multiple lines may be read until the #Inventor END tag is read. Note that this tag is used even if the file is not an Inventor format file.

Care must be taken to ensure that the #Inventor END tag is not contained within the body of the embedded file.