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This page is to aid user in viewing of the WRL, X3DV or SVG file type MIME extensions created by KitCAD. Simply install a single 3rd party plugin for the required file format, as directed below to view such file types.

VRML97 - Virtual Reality Modeling Language; A Web Browser Plug-in file format for drawing 3D within a Web Browser or Web Browser Plug-in.
There are many browsers and plug-ins for existing web browsers, for WRL please download a WRL viewer, and with X3DV it's suggested users aquire software provided by xj3d.org
KitCADi3 and KitCAD2 kp2vrml97.exe both include support to generate X3D and VRML file formats for online and offline 3D rendering that is viewed using a 3rd party application interface.
Users pressing KitCAD buttons for VRML/X3D are prompted with a web page or Open with dialog.
For a complete list of Plug-in, web browsers, or download requied to view the KitCAD2 or KitCADi3 render functions can be seen at the following hyperlink
http://cic.nist.gov/vrml/vbdetect.html.
The kp2vrml97.exe and vrml2kp2.exe programs are an addon for KitCAD i3 that can be downloaded by the following link for KitCAD2
File Conversions to other 3D file formats; Or by Installing the full KitCAD 2 software package.
See the included 'readme.html' file for other information about kp2vrml97.exe (START|Programs|Kitchen|VRML|readme.html)
To view VRML files users will require a web browser Plug-In capable of rendering content in 3D.
Download and Install a plugin or viewer to open WRL/VRML files:
It should be noted that 3D VRML can be converted to X3DV formats for more advanced users using other converters for VRML file formats.
X3D users have 3 formats of file - Classic VRML 3.0, XML X3D, and Binary X3D. When Xj3D loads a non-X3DV file as WRL VRML the application pre-converts the file into X3DV (Classic VRML) within a XML X3D framework for rendering - see help provided with Xj3D.
The picture above was generated using kp2vrml97.exe and a web browser plugin.
The KitCAD2 vrml2glu32.exe, kp2glu32.exe and KitCAD1 render.exe software programs are designed only to create solid texture colour drawings.
For Best results use a VRML / Xj3D M9 webbrowser*, plugin, or application for rendering texture images to drawn shapes (set colors of shapes) - links above..
* Note: Advanced Win95 users should install Xj3D M9, other versions may fail to install on Win95 machines. VRML compliant webbrowser plug-ins may be used by default of 'wrl'. Most X3D webbrowser plug-ins support WRL or X3DV file mine extensions.

SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics; A Web Browser Plug-in file format for drawing 2D within a Web Browser or Web Browser Plug-in.
There are many browsers and plug-ins for existing web browsers, for SGV please download a SVG plugin viewer or web browser
The kp2svg.exe and svg2kp2.exe programs are an addon for KitCAD i3 that can be downloaded by the following link for KitCAD2
File Conversions to other 2D file formats; Or by Installing the full KitCAD 2 software package.
See the included 'readme.html' file for other information (START|Programs|Kitchen|SVG|readme.html)
To view SVG files users will require a web browser Plug-In capable of rendering content in 2D.
Download and Install a plugin or web browser to open SVG files:
It should be noted that 2D SVG can be converted to from DXF formats using DXF/DWG tools for more advanced CAD users using other converters for SVG file formats. The picture above was generated using kp2svg.exe and a web browser plugin.
Updated on the 11th of July, 2010.