New section about scene-graph hierarchy and instancing.
Proofreading of extended section about z-layers.
Removal of obsolete information.
Remarks taken into account.
Graphic3d_ZLayerSettings - public fields have been replaced by methods.
Added new property Origin defining local coordinate system for all Layer objects.
Syntax of Draw Harness command VZLayer has been redesigned.
Graphic3d_CStructure now stores bounding box with double precision floats.
OpenGl_BVHTreeSelector - frustum culling now works with double precision floats.
- updated description of selection mechanism in sections occt_visu_2_2, occt_visu_3_2_4 and occt_visu_3_6;
- unnecessary images were removed.
New Selection section reviewed.
Semantic corrections
- m-dashes added.
- some other cases of incorrect dash use fixed
- unicode dashes were removed throughout the documentation.
- other comments taken into account.
Technical overview refactored; text duplicating information contained in user guides removed.
Some images are regenerated for better presentation.
Problems with formatting and section tags corrected in user guides.
Redesign of Visualisation user guide's structure with some changes in the guide.
Update Draw_test_harness user guide. Added dimension commands to DRAW test harness.
Update of prerequisites and building 3rd party tools sections
Move VIS draw tests to Draw Test Harness section.
Additionally, fix bugs 24117 and 25353.
Correct output of new imaged in PDF in modeling algos guide and errors introduced by bug 24699 in the overview.
Command gendoc improved to:
- generate Reference Manual documentation (OCCT classes reference) with option -refman; option -overview can be used for generation of overview documentation;
- generate PDF documents for all User Guides automatically (for files listed in FILES_PDF.txt);
- check availability of third-party tools (Doxygen, Inkscape etc.) and properly report warnings and errors.
- use templates of configuration files for third-party tools instead of their generation. These template files are located in dox/resources folder
Tcl scripts are moved from dox folder to adm.
Doxygen warnings are eliminated.
Moved all auxilary functions to occaux.tcl.
Fixed Reference manual generation on *nix platform.
Fixed PDF generation on *nix platforms.
unrelated changes: Unused unit OpenCL removed from UDLIST
All articles revised
README revised
comments are allowed in FILES.txt
Add gendoc.sh for Linux
Added option -s to set search engine of the HTML documents
Added 3rdparty_building docs for different platforms
help message removed from bat&sh scripts (left within tcl script)
tableofcontents added for all huge articles;
gendoc.bat doesn't change PATH variable
jpgs converted to pngs and unused pngs removed
logo displaying of pdf files fixed
Automatic detection of OCCT version number added to occtdoc.tcl
OCCT version within pdfs is got from Standard_Version.hxx; copyright changed
pdf generation process removes latex dir now
GIF images converted to PNG in technical_overview;
references fixed (incorrect reference to wok and cdl didn't touch; redundant latex option removed
Tutorial moved from Overview and made top level page
LICENSE.md moved from dox/overview to dox folder
Section related to OCCT building refactored and simplified.
WOK and CDL explicitly declared as deprecated.
building subsection introduced; wok moved to dev guides section;
Requirements and Installation sections were interchanged;
some Unicode characters removed from .md files; \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{00A0}{ } instruction added into refman file
images insertion rolled back to dual html,latex insertion; mainpage now is processed (index.tex);
surplus part of overview has been removed
foundation_classes.md and technical_overview.md updated;
Reviewed step, tobj, xde and partly iges; Corrections in other guides.
Overview installation and requirements changes updated
OCCT documentation (Overview and User Guides) has been converted from MS Word files to text-based MarkDown format and added to OCCT sources, in the new subfolder 'dox'. The HTML and PDF articles can be generated from the sources using Doxygen and MiKTeX. See the file OCCT_Docs_HowTo.md for details on the new documentation system.
This branch includes:
- new folder structure for Open CASCADE documentation
- sources of almost all OCCT User Guides and Overview
- tcl and bat scripts, which allow to generate HTML and PDF articles
