rvmparser

Code to work with AVEVA PDMS RVM files. Written completely from scratch, intended to be very fast, small, and with little dependencies, so it is trivial to include in existing projects.

Includes a sample application that:

• Reads AVEVA PDMS binary RVM and attribute files.
• Tries to match adjacent geometries to:
  • Avoid adding internal caps between adjacent shapes.
  • Align circumferential sample points between adjacent shapes.
• Triangulate primitive shapes with a prescribed error tolerance.
• Optionally merges groups using a prescribed list of groups.
• Exports geometry as Wavefront OBJ files
• Exports attributes as json.

Usage

Usage: rvmparser [options] files                
                                                                                       
Files with .rvm-suffix will be interpreted as a geometry files, and files with .txt    
suffix will be interpreted as attribute files.                                         
You typically want to pass one of each.                                                
                                                                                       
Options:                                                                               
    --keep-groups=filename.txt   Provide a list of group names to keep. Groups not     
                                 itself or with a child in this list will be merged    
                                 with the first parent that should be kept.            
    --output-json=filename.json  Write hierarchy with attributes to a json file.       
    --output-txt=filename.txt    Dump all group names to a text file.                  
    --output-obj=filenamestem    Write geometry to an obj file, .obj and .mtl          
                                 are added to filenamestem.                            
    --group-bounding-boxes       Include wireframe of boundingboxes of groups in output
    --color-attribute=key        Specify which attributes that contain color, empty    
                                 imply that material id of group is used.              
    --tolerance=value            Tessellation tolerance, given in world frame.         
    --cull-scale=value           Cull objects that are smaller than cull-scale times   
                                 tolerance. Set to a negative value to disable culling.

Building

Clone the git repo, and update submodules

git submodule update --init --recursive

and open the solution file in msvc15. The project is just a few source-files, so it should be trivial to use other build systems.

Currently, the example command-line utility (main.cpp) only builds on windows, as it uses the windows memmap API, but the parser itself is just passed pointers and size of an in-memory buffer, so the rest of the code should be fully cross-platform.

Dependencies:

• libtess2 is used to triangulate polygon more complex than quads.
• rapidjson is used to output attributes as JSON.

See also

• Plant Mock-Up Converter.