Plantra

Developed by Cristiane Pescador Tonetto, Altamir Dias. UFSC 2007.

cris.tonetto@gmail.com altamir@emc.ufsc.br

Application to help trajectory planning from points cloud. Free Software , under GPL, Developed in Java, multiplatform (tested in GNU/Linux, MS-Windows).

Download:

English Version 0.9: zip package

Brazilian Portuguese Version 0.8: zip package

Demonstration Videos: [youtube.com] video1 video2

Current version (12/04/2007): Plantra 0.9 README of this version

System Requirements:

256 MB of RAM
GNU/Linux (tested with ubuntu linux, openSuse, Debian) or MS-Windows (tested with WinXP) Operational Systems
Sun Java Runtime Environment (tested with 1.5.0 and above)
Video board with 3D acceleration recommended

Features:

Use as input a set of points in plain ASCII file format.
Reconstruct and visualize surfaces in three different ways (Voronoi diagram, Delaunay triangulation and B-Splines).
Generate tools path in parametric and workspace, using step-forward and step-side of the tool as input values.
Visualize the surface in wireframe and shaded model.
Open and save files in other software compatible formats (OBJ (.obj), VRML (.wrl)).
Manipulate and visualize using standard mouse interface (zoom, rotation and translation).