An Open Inventor Sampler

• “Hello, Cone”
• Naming Conventions
• Scene Basic Types
• Coordinate Systems in Inventor
• Include Files
• Configuration Files and Environment Variables
• Graphics Preferences and Configurations

Chapter Objectives. After reading this chapter, you'll be able to do the following:

• Explain the basic structure of an Inventor program
• Describe the conventions used by Inventor
• Create your own configuration file for tuning your application

• Specify your graphics preferences in a platform-independent way

  This chapter provides an overview of the 5 percent of Open Inventor that is part of any program. It includes a short program that draws a red cone in a window. This program is gradually augmented to show the use of some important Inventor objects: engines, manipulators, and components. Open Inventor naming conventions and basic data types are also described.