Licensing
Your Open Inventor Development License entitles you to use the SDK to create and execute Open Inventor programs on the licensed machine. You may need an additional Run-Time license agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific allowing you to redistribute the Open Inventor run-time.

A run-time license is required for Open Inventor and each Open Inventor extension that is used by your application. The steps involved in setting up a run-time license are listed in the Licensing section.

Note that runtime licenses cannot unlock Open Inventor SDK installations. Runtime licenses fail to unlock Open Inventor based applications when :

    • One of the Open Inventor SDK directories doc, include (C++ only), arch*\lib (Windows only) or examples can be found on disk, or
    • Application is using OIV debug components

An Open Inventor SDK installer has been used on the system, or
One of the Open Inventor SDK directories doc, include, arch*\lib (Windows only) or src can be found on disk, or Application is using OIV debug components

NOTE : If you have a master password agreement, other policies and practices apply relative to the disclosure and distribution of passwords. This information is provided in the materials that you receive with your master password.

Java
The Open Inventor Java run-time located in the jre folder contains several JAR files implementing the Java part of the API and a C++ run-time of the native part. The JAR files are portable across platforms like any other Java component but the C++ run-time is platform dependent. Thus redistributing Open Inventor Java requires to build separate installers for each platform.

The following packages are included in the Open Inventor Java run-time:

    • com.openinventor.inventor.jar: Core package
    • com.openinventor.inventor.ui.awt.jar: AWT package
    • com.openinventor.inventor.io.stl.jar: STL package
    • com.openinventor.hardcopy.jar: Hardcopy package
    • com.openinventor.ivtune.jar: IvTune package
    • com.openinventor.imageviz.jar: ImageViz package
    • com.openinventor.meshviz.jar: MeshViz package
    • com.openinventor.volumeviz.jar: VolumeViz package
    • com.openinventor.ldm.jar: LDM package
    • com.openinventor.remoteviz.jar: RemoteViz package
    • com.openinventor.meshvizxlm.mapping.jar: MeshViz Data Mapping package
    • com.openinventor.meshvizxlm.extractors.jar: MeshViz Extraction package
    • com.openinventor.meshvizxlm.mesh.jar: MeshViz Mesh interfaces package

The jre folder can be copied as is for redistribution. The property file located in the properties folder must also be redistributed.

OS dependant files

The Open Inventor run-time system is dependent on the operating system and the compiler version that Open Inventor was compiled with. Some of the required libraries are operating system dependent.

Open Inventor DLLs The Run-Time License permits you to redistribute these files, which are necessary for an Open Inventor on Windows. Unless otherwise indicated, all of these files must be supplied.

NOTE: You are not allowed to distribute debug DLLs, e.g., InventorD.DLL.

  • fei_inventor.dll
  • fei_inventor_base.dll
  • fei_inventor_gl.dll
  • fei_inventor_image.dll
  • fei_inventor_renderengine.dll
  • fei_glew.dll
  • fei_ImageAccess.dll
  • fei_boost_atomic-mt.dll
  • fei_boost_chrono-mt.dll
  • fei_boost_date_time-mt.dll
  • fei_boost_filesystem-mt.dll
  • fei_boost_log-mt.dll
  • fei_boost_random-mt.dll
  • fei_boost_system-mt.dll
  • fei_boost_thread-mt.dll

Note: the TBB libraries and entry points have been renamed to avoid conflicts with other versions used in customer applications.

Dynamically loaded DLLs The following DLLs are dynamically loaded and must be redistributed

  • fei_bzlib.dll: Compression library (1)
  • fei_zlib.dll: Compression library (2)
  • fei_freetype.dll: FreeType font support (3)
  • fei_libjpeg.dll: JPEG support (import/export) (4)
  • fei_inventor_license.dll: FLEXnet floating license support
  • fei_hpdf: PDF/U3D support
  • fei_proj4.dll: Cartographic projection support (6)
  • fei_smlib.dll: CSG library

Note that your application can ask Open Inventor to load alternate versions of these DLLs. For this, you have to use the following environment variables (for matching please refer to the number in brackets in list above):

  1. OIV_BZLIB_NAME
  2. OIV_ZLIB_NAME
  3. OIV_FREETYPE_NAME
  4. OIV_LIBJPEG_NAME
  5. OIV_LIBPNG_NAME
  6. OIV_LIBPROJ4_NAME

If you have chosen to use one or more alternate DLLs, be sure to distribute the alternate DLLs that your application needs.

In order for your user to use the Open Inventor DLLs, the directory containing these DLLs must be found in one of the following locations: the application directory, the current directory, the system directory, the Windows directory, %PATH%. The dynamically loaded DLLs are searched for in all the same places, plus %OIV_LD_LIBRARY_PATH%.

Import/Export file format DLLs Following files must be redistributed if your application import one of the specific file format listed below. Notice that CATIA, STEP and IGES readers require a separate license.

  • fei_inventor_io_cad.dll: CATIA, IGES, STEP import ++ (specific license)
  • fei_inventor_io_dxf.dll: DXF import
  • fei_inventor_io_slt.dll: STL import/export
  • fei_inventor_io_genericFile.dll: Raster images & VolumeViz formats import

Qt DLLs Following files must be redistributed if your application uses Open Inventor with Qt.

  • fei_inventor_ui.dll
  • fei_inventor_ui_qt.dll
  • fei_dialogViz_qt.dll
  • Qt5Core.dll: Only required if using SoQt or Qt ViewerComponents application
  • Qt5Gui.dll: Only required if using SoQt or Qt ViewerComponents application
  • Qt5OpenGL.dll: Only required if using SoQt or Qt ViewerComponents application
  • Qt5PrintSupport.dll: Only required if using SoQt or Qt ViewerComponents application
  • Qt5Widgets.dll: Only required if using SoQt or Qt ViewerComponents application
  • Qt5Network.dll: Only required if using Qt ViewerComponents application
  • Qt5Qml.dll: Only required if using Qt ViewerComponents application
  • Qt5QmlModels.dll: Only required if using Qt ViewerComponents application
  • Qt5QmlWorkerScript.dll: Only required if using Qt ViewerComponents application
  • Qt5QuickControls2.dll: Only required if using Qt ViewerComponents application
  • Qt5Quick.dll: Only required if using Qt ViewerComponents application
  • Qt5QuickTemplate2.dll: Only required if using Qt ViewerComponents application
  • Qt5QuickWidgets.dll: Only required if using Qt ViewerComponents application
  • bin/platforms/qminimal.dll
  • bin/platforms/qwindowsd.dll
  • bin/qtplugins

DialogViz DLLs Following files must be redistributed if your application uses the Open Inventor DialogViz extension.

  • fei_inventor_ui_win.dll: Depends on Win
  • fei_dialogViz_qt.dll: Depends on Qt5

IvTune DLLs Only required if you want access to IvTune from your application. IvTune requires the DLL (shared library) for FxViz, MeshViz XLM, ScaleViz, SolidViz, TerrainViz, and VolumeViz, as well as InvQt, InvGui and the Qt DLL for the version of Qt that was used to build IvTune. If you plan to allow IvTune to be launched from your application, then you must redistribute all of these files, even if they are not otherwise required by your application.

  • fei_ivTune.dll
  • fei_hardCopy.dll
  • fei_ivTune_extender.dll
  • fei_ivTune_extender_base.dll
  • fei_ivTune_extender_inventor.dll: Only required if using Open Inventor extension for  IvTune
  • fei_ivTune_extender_volumeVizLDM.dll: Only required if using VolumeViz/LDM extension for IvTune
  • bin/qtplugins: IvTune required plugins

About Qt DLLS Some installations of Open Inventor include the DLL or library for Qt (Digia- qt-project.org). FEI is a licensed commercial Qt developer and this DLL is included to allow certain demonstration or example programs to run and is used by the ivTune program. This does not give you any rights (that you do not already have) to redistribute Qt.

VolumeViz Required DLLs Following files must be redistributed if your application uses the VolumeViz extension.

  • fei_volumeViz.dll
  • fei_ldm.dll

MeshViz XLM Required DLLs Following files must be redistributed if your application uses the MeshViz XLM extension.

  • fei_meshVizXLM_dataMapping.dll
  • fei_meshVizXLM_extractor.dll

RemoteViz Required DLLs Following files must be redistributed if your application uses the RemoteViz extension.

  • fei_remoteViz_services.dll
  • fei_remoteViz_client.dll
  • fei_avcodec.dll
  • fei_avfilter.dll
  • fei_avformat.dll
  • fei_avutil.dll
  • fei_remoteViz_ffmpeg_codec.dll
  • fei_remoteViz_jpeg_codec.dll
  • fei_remoteViz_nvidia_video_codec.dll
  • fei_remoteViz_png_codec.dll
  • fei_swresample.dll
  • fei_swscale.dll
  • fei_boost_chrono-mt.dll
  • fei_boost_thread-mt.dll
  • fei_boost_random-mt.dll
  • fei_boost_signals-mt.dll

ImageViz Required DLLs Following files must be redistributed if your application uses the ImageViz extension :

  • fei_imageViz.DLL
  • fei_ldm.dll
  • fei_proxy_AccessVisilib.dll
  • fei_proxy_Data.dll
  • fei_proxy_ippro51.dll
  • fei_proxy_LgSkeletonPolyg.dll
  • fei_proxy_porosity.dll
  • fei_proxy_Process.dll
  • fei_proxy_Reconstruction.dll
  • fei_proxy_ServiceHandler.dll
  • fei_proxy_VisilogAPI.dll
  • fei_proxy_VisilogIP.dll
  • fei_proxy_VisilogProxy.dll
  • fei_proxy_VlgUtil.dll
  • fei_proxy_vip_jero.dll
  • fei_proxy_vip_magn.dll
  • fei_proxy_vip_nabu.dll
  • fei_proxy_boost_chrono-mt.dll
  • fei_proxy_boost_context-mt.dll
  • fei_proxy_boost_date_time-mt.dll
  • fei_proxy_boost_filesystem-mt.dll
  • fei_proxy_boost_iostreams-mt.dll
  • fei_proxy_boost_program_options-mt.dll
  • fei_proxy_boost_regex-mt.dll
  • fei_proxy_boost_system-mt.dll
  • fei_proxy_boost_thread-mt.dll
  • fei_proxy_tbb.dll

HardCopy Required DLLs Following files must be redistributed if your application uses the HardCopy extension:

  • fei_hardCopy.dll
  • fei_hpdf.dll
  • fei_ifx_core.dll

MeshViz Required DLLs

Following files must be redistributed if your application uses the (classic) MeshViz extension.

  • fei_meshViz.dll

TBB required DLLs

  • fei.tbb.dll
  • fei_tbbmalloc.dll
  • fei_tbbmalloc_proxy.dll

Other Required DLLs

  • The Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable (x64) must be installed.

.NET
The Open Inventor .NETrun-time located in the assemblies folder contains several assemblies implementing the .NET part of the API and a C++ run-time of the native part. The following packages are included in the Open Inventor .NET run-time:

  • OIV.HardCopy: HardCopy assembly
  • OIV.ImageViz: ImageViz assembly
  • OIV.Inventor: Open Inventor kernel assembly
  • OIV.Inventor.Algorithms: Open Inventor Algorithms assembly
  • OIV.Inventor.Base: Open Inventor Base assembly
  • OIV.Inventor.GL: Open Inventor GL assembly
  • OIV.Inventor.IO.CAD: CAD file format readers
  • OIV.Inventor.IO.STL: STL file format reader
  • OIV.Inventor.SbLinear: Open Inventor SbLinear assembly
  • OIV.Inventor.ViewerComponents: Viewer components assembly
  • OIV.Inventor.ViewerComponents.wpf: Viewer components for WPF assembly
  • OIV.Inventor.win: SoWin viewer assembly
  • OIV.Inventor.wpf: WPF specific assembly
  • OIV.IvTune: IvTune assembly
  • OIV.LDM: LDM assembly
  • OIV.Medical: Open Inventor Medical utility assembly
  • OIV.MeshViz: MeshViz assembly
  • OIV.RemoteViz: RemoteViz assembly
  • OIV.RemoteViz.Client: RemoteViz Client assembly
  • OIV.VolumeViz: VolumeViz assembly

The assemblies folder contains Debug and Release subfolder. They can be copied as is for redistribution if needed.

The Open Inventor run-time system is dependent on the compiler version and the operating system the Open Inventor release was compiled with. Some of required system libraries are operating system dependent.

Open Inventor Libraries
The Runtime License permits you to redistribute these files, which are necessary for an Open Inventor Linux platform runtime distribution:

  • lib_fei_inventor.so: 
  • libfei_inventor_ui.so: 
  • libfei_inventor_base.so: 
  • libfei_inventor_image.so: 
  • libfei_inventor_gl.so: 
  • libfei_inventor_ui_xt.so: 
  • libfei_inventor_computing_algorithms.so: 
  • libfei_inventor_ui_dialogs.so:  (Only required if record feature is activated in viewer)
  • libfei_dialogViz.so:  (Only required on Linux platform)
  • libfei_dialogViz_qt.so:  (Only required if DialogViz application)
  • libfei_inventor_ui_qt.so:  (Only required if SoQt application using Qt 5.x)
  • libfei_inventor_ui_xt:  (Only required if SoQt application using SoXt)
  • libfei_volumeViz.so:  (Only required if VolumeViz application)
  • libfei_ldm.so:  (Only required if VolumeViz/LDM application)
  • libfei_imageViz:  (Only required if ImageViz application)
  • libfei_meshVizXLM_dataMapping.so:   (Only required if MeshViz XLM application)
  • libfei_meshVizXLM_extractor.so:  (Only required if MeshViz XLM application)
  • libfei_meshViz.so:  (Only required if MeshViz application)

ImageViz Required Libraries
Following files must be redistributed if your application uses the ImageViz extension:

  • libImageViz.so
  • LDM.so
  • libLDM.so
  • libfei_proxy_ImageAccess.so
  • libfei_proxy_AccessVisilib.so
  • libfei_proxy_Data.so
  • libfei_proxy_ippro51.so
  • libfei_proxy_LgSkeletonPolyg.so
  • libfei_proxy_porosity.so
  • libfei_proxy_Process.so
  • libfei_proxy_Reconstruction.so
  • libfei_proxy_ServiceHandler.so
  • libfei_proxy_VisilogAPI.so
  • libfei_proxy_VisilogIP.so
  • libfei_proxy_VisilogProxy.so
  • libfei_proxy_VlgUtil.so
  • libfei_proxy_vip_magn.so
  • libfei_proxy_vip_jero.so
  • libfei_proxy_vip_nabu.so
  • libfei_proxy_boost_chrono-mt.so
  • libfei_proxy_boost_context-mt.so
  • libfei_proxy_boost_date_time-mt.so
  • libfei_proxy_boost_filesystem-mt.so
  • libfei_proxy_boost_iostreams-mt.so
  • libfei_proxy_boost_program_options-mt.so
  • libfei_proxy_boost_regex-mt.so
  • libfei_proxy_boost_system-mt.so
  • libfei_proxy_boost_thread-mt.so
  • libfei_proxy_tbb.so

IvTune Libraries
Only required if you want access to IvTune from your application. IvTune requires the shared library for FxViz, MeshViz XLM, ScaleViz, SolidViz, TerrainViz, and VolumeViz, as well as libInventorQt, libInventorGui and the Qt shared library for the version of Qt that was used to build IvTune. If you plan to allow IvTune to be launched from your application, then you must redistribute all of these files, even if they are not otherwise required by your application.

  • libfei_ivTune.so: 
  • libfei_ivTune_extender.so: 
  • libfei_ivTune_extender_base.so: 
  • libfei_ivTune_extender_inventor.so:  (Only required if using Open Inventor extension for  IvTune)
  • libfei_ivTune_extender_volumeVizLDM.so:   (Only required if using VolumeViz/LDM extension for IvTune)
  • themes : folder containing themes dark and light used by the common UI look and feel library.
  • lib/qtplugins: IvTune required plugins

Import file format Libraries
Following files must be redistributed if your application imports one of the specific file formats listed below. Notice that CATIA, STEP and IGES readers require a separate license.

  • libfei_inventor_io_dxf.so: DXF import
  • libfei_inventor_io_stl.so: STL import
  • libfei_inventor_io_genericFile.so: Raster images & VolumeViz formats import

Dynamically loaded Libraries

The libraries prefixed with "IvDL" are dynamically loaded. Following files must be redistributed.

  • libfei_bzlib.so: Compression library (1)
  • libfei_freetype.so: FreeType support (2)
  • libfei_libjpeg.so: JPEG support (import/export) (3)
  • libfei_inventor_license.so: FLEXnet floating license support
  • libfei_hpdf.so: PDF 3D support
  • libfei_proj4.so: Cartographic projection support (4)
  • libfei_zlib.so: Compression library (5)
  • libfei_smlib.so: CSG library

These files are normally installed in the /lib directory. Unless otherwise indicated, all of these files must be supplied.  Your application can tell Open Inventor to load alternate libraries using the following environment variables:

  1. OIV_BZLIB_NAME
  2. OIV_FREETYPE_NAME
  3. OIV_LIBJPEG_NAME
  4. OIV_LIBPROJ4_NAME
  5. OIV_ZLIB_NAME

If you have chosen to use one or more alternate libraries, be sure to distribute the alternate libraries that your application needs.

Note that in order for your user to use the Inventor libraries, they need to be in a directory whose path is in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. The dynamically loaded libraries are searched for in the following locations: $LD_LIBRARY_PATH and $OIV_LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Qt Libraries

Following files must be redistributed if your application uses Qt features:

  • libfei_inventor_ui.so
  • libfei_inventor_ui_qt.so
  • libfei_dialogViz_qt.so
  • libQt5Core.so: required if using SoQt or Qt ViewerComponents application
  • libQt5Gui.so: required if using SoQt or Qt ViewerComponents application
  • libQt5OpenGL.so: required if using SoQt or Qt ViewerComponents application
  • libQt5PrintSupport.so: required if using SoQt or Qt ViewerComponents application
  • libQt5Widgets.so: required if using SoQt or Qt ViewerComponents application
  • libQt5Network.so: required if using Qt ViewerComponents application
  • libQt5Qml.so: required if using Qt ViewerComponents application
  • libQt5QmlModels.so: required if using Qt ViewerComponents application
  • libQt5QmlWorkerScript.so: required if using Qt ViewerComponents application
  • libQt5QuickControls2.so: required if using Qt ViewerComponents application
  • libQt5Quick.so: required if using Qt ViewerComponents application
  • libQt5QuickTemplate2.so: required if using Qt ViewerComponents application
  • libQt5QuickWidgets.so: required if using Qt ViewerComponents application
  • lib/qtplugins

Boost libraries
Please find below the files you have to redistribute depending on the modules used by your application.

  • libfei_boost_atomic-mt.so : Open Inventor / RemoteViz / ImageViz
  • libfei_boost_date_time-mt.so:  Open Inventor / RemoteViz / ImageViz
  • libfei_boost_system-mt.so: Open Inventor / RemoteViz / ImageViz
  • libfei_boost_chrono-mt.so: RemoteViz / ImageViz
  • libfei_boost_thread-mt.so:  RemoteViz / ImageViz
  • libfei_boost_filesystem-mt.so: ImageViz
  • libfei_boost_iostreams-mt.so: ImageViz
  • libfei_boost_regex-mt.so: ImageViz

RemoteViz Required Librairies
Following files must be redistributed if your application uses the RemoteViz extension.

  • libfei_remoteViz_services.so
  • libfei_remoteViz_client.so
  • libfei_FFmpeg_avcodec.so
  • libfei_FFmpeg_avfilter.so
  • libfei_FFmpeg_avformat.so
  • libfei_FFmpeg_avutil.so
  • libfei_remoteViz_ffmpeg_codec.so
  • libfei_remoteViz_jpeg_codec.so
  • libfei_remoteViz_nvidia_video_codec.so
  • libfei_remoteViz_png_codec.so
  • libfei_swresample.so
  • libfei_swscale.so
  • libfei_boost_atomic-mt.so
  • libfei_boost_chrono-mt.so
  • libfei_boost_thread-mt.so
  • libfei_boost_random-mt.so
  • libfei_boost_signals-mt.so

NVidia Complex Required Library
Following file must be redistributed, if your application uses ScaleViz in a multipipe quadroplex context.

  • libcomplex.so

TBB Required Libraries
Following files must be redistributed if your application uses MeshViz XLM:

  • libfei_tbb.so: tbb kernel library
  • libfei.tbbmalloc.so: tbb malloc library
  • libfei.tbb.malloc_proxy.so

Note: the TBB libraries and entry points have been renamed to avoid conflicts with other versions used in customer applications.

PDF 3D Export Required Libraries
Following files must be redistributed if your application uses PDF 3D export:

  • libhpdf.so
  • libfei_ifx_core.so

Resource File for Viewers (Motif only)
The strings used for labeling GUI components and menu items in a standard Open Inventor viewer are supplied in the following Motif resource file:

/app-defaults/Inventor

This file should be distributed with your application and placed where Motif will find it. Motif searches in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults as well as in the directories specified by the XAPPLRESDIR environment variable. See Motif documentation for further details.

NOTE: If you forget to supply this resource file, the internal widget names will be used for the names; the strings will all start with the prefix "Iv".