Hello Martin,
Hi Jan-Erik
I have zero experience with this kind of software. I had played around with it a little bit, but no serious work was ever produced.
Here is what we have in hobbes:
https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/?path=%2Fpub%2Fos2%2Fapps%2Fgraphics%2F3D
and
https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/?path=%2Fpub%2Fjava%2Fapps%2Fgraphics%2F3D
For sure all is old and out-dated.
And here is the current home page:
https://csaws.cs.technion.ac.il/~gershon/irit/But the documentation and lack of demo.irt and examples to follow stopped me.
I had my hopes on Forespace, but it was discontinued before it could output something to render as image, not reusable shapes.
A visual designer tool for POV-Ray would be interesting, but now it offer a scripting language and text editors and not reusable shapes. POV-Ray produce rendered photorealistic images, the finished product after long calculations, but not files that can be accepted as a chair, dish washer, car, computer etc. in other software.
I don't know much about the difference about the 3D software, are you looking something like POV-RAY? and ForeSpace as frontend? But I'm not sure if that does the same thing as a 3D solid modeling tool.
Or maybe in Java 1.7 you can give it a try to Art of Illusion.
Regards
Art of Illusion 2.51 can be used in OS/2 java 1.6, but working with it is very inaccurate and thus frustrating.
It should allow for numeric input of shapes and absolutely not mesh and nurbs (freeform and inaccurate) hollow (wire frame) surface.
With a Solid modeller one can build a product and reuse it as it is, a product with weight and density, cut and add material with precision (measurement).
Regards,
//Jan-Erik