New repository for Inspector: https://github.com/Open-Cascade-SAS/Inspector
Documentation and all build process are fully migrated.
"tools" folder keep to share information for some time.
Keep building inspector as before to keep control of API changes via GitHub actions.
Revision of User Guides
- Changes in User Guides Section to correspond with OCCT Overview structure: Mesh became a direct subsection of User Guides (it was a part of Modeling Algorithms).
TObj is included into OCAF.
- Changes in User Guides – Modeling Algorithms section: Fillets and Chamfers, Offsets, Drafts, Pipes and Evolved shapes, Sewing, Features, 3D Model Defeaturing, 3D Model Periodicity,
Object Modification are moved into The Topology API section.
- Changes in User Guides – Modeling Data section: Naming shapes, sub-shapes, their orientation and state section is renamed to Shape content. Shape Location is moved into Shape content section.
Storage of Shapes is moved into BRep Format section of Specification. Lists and Maps of Shapes subsection is moved into Topology - Exploration of Topological Data Structures.
- Some pictures in User Guides (Foundation Classes, Modeling Data, Modeling Algorithms) and Tutorial are updated to improve quality and correct mistakes.
Documentation is added in a new "Inspector" page of "User Guides".
Inspector plugins has some improvements by the documentation needs.
New DRAW scripts are implemented for 'tinspector' command.
The text of white papers has been rearranged as follows:
OCAF white paper:
Purpose of OCAF
Overview of the architecture
A look inside OCAF
- merged with the Introduction chapter
Getting Started
An example of OCAF usage
- added in Samples chapter
The Data Framework
- merged with Data Framework Services chapter
Persistent Data Storage
- added as a separate chapter
OCAF function mechanism white paper:
- added as a separate Example of Function Mechanism Usage chapter
Distribution of data through OCAF tree white paper:
- added as "The choice between standard and custom attributes" paragraph in Standard Attributes chapter.
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
