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Contents
WELCOME TO IMO..............................................................................................1
Introduction .....................................................................................................................1
Main features...................................................................................................................1
What's new in IMO 1.5 ....................................................................................................2
Hardware and system requirements ................................................................................2
Installing, Starting and Uninstalling IMO ..........................................................................2
Getting assistance...........................................................................................................3
Technical support ............................................................................................................3
Screen Layout .................................................................................................................4
WORKING WITH IMO ..........................................................................................6
BASIC OPERATIONS ........................................................................................13
Open an existing model.................................................................................................13
Adding to an opened model...........................................................................................13
Selecting shapes ...........................................................................................................13
Deleting shapes.............................................................................................................13
Merging shapes.............................................................................................................14
Undo/Redo operations...................................................................................................14
Get model information ...................................................................................................14
Save a model ................................................................................................................15
Publish a model.............................................................................................................15
Upload the scene to the World Wide Web.....................................................................16
Creating Internet Scene Assembler objects using IMO..................................................16
SCENE TREE WINDOW ....................................................................................17
Overview .......................................................................................................................17
Renaming nodes ...........................................................................................................17
Selecting in the Scene Tree ..........................................................................................18
Scene Tree commands .................................................................................................18
Using shortcut keys for Scene Tree...............................................................................19
3D VIEW WINDOW.............................................................................................20
Overview .......................................................................................................................20
Moving around: PLAN, PAN, TURN and ROLL .............................................................20
Fit and Align ..................................................................................................................21
Controlling model view...................................................................................................21
Keyboard commands.....................................................................................................22
Selecting in the 3D View................................................................................................22
Setting 3D View window options....................................................................................22
OPTIMIZATION AND CONVERSION.................................................................24
Preprocessing ...............................................................................................................24
Preprocessor Options....................................................................................................24
Optimizing polygonal mesh of objects ...........................................................................25
Step-by-step optimization ..............................................................................................25
Spline Surface ...............................................................................................................26
How to convert VRML nodes .........................................................................................26
Crease Angle Tuner ......................................................................................................27
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