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Last night I surfed through Chris Kelley’s blog (Link)<\/a> and learned that UGS<\/a>, the PLM\/CAD company for whom he works and a company I sometimes mention in my posts, had decided to rez into Second Life<\/a> and was opening a virtual outpost. It’s not the first CAD vendor to do so; Autodesk entered<\/a> some months back. However, Autodesk doesn’t appear to be pursuing PLM (product lifecycle management) applications which, for me, are closely related to something like Second Life. So I logged into SL to see what UGS was doing and wound up chatting with both Chris and another UGS representative. The JT format may offer some advantages over other formats, but I suspect those advantages aren’t helping too much or UGS would already have a good idea for a solution; their questions to me suggest they don’t. I hope they figure something out. Even so, I don’t currently have a way to translate data into the JT format, so unless I write a standalone translator myself, I’ll have to hope that someone else provides it.<\/p>\n With regard to LL working on the 3D side of things, I recall hearing a couple of years ago that they were working on adding more shapes to the toolbox. That’s not happened and I don’t believe it will {Update: Open mouth, insert foot<\/a>; LL appears to have a solution and some upgrades coming}. If Linden Lab is, in fact, working<\/em> on a new format, that further supports my half-baked theory<\/a> that LL intends to open source the current Second Life implementation and release a new, upgraded platform which uses the same basic Second Life backbone.<\/p>\n We’ll see. I’d like to be surprised, and perhaps UGS can pull something off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night I surfed through Chris Kelley’s blog (Link) and learned that UGS, the PLM\/CAD company for whom he works and a company I sometimes mention in my posts, had decided to rez into Second Life and was opening a … Continue reading
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\nThere’s not much to report other than a) they’re interested into linking their JT file format<\/a> with Second Life’s 3D system, and b) Linden Lab has indicated to UGS that they’re working on a more “open” data file format. I’d like to see both, but I’m not expecting either.<\/p>\n