I saw optimizer had support for Catia v4 import, what about performer? what file format is performer using? Is it good for vizualising large model sets like Optimizer?
Is Performer considered as a “living” product? Or will it meet the same destiny as Optimizer?
Any ideas?
yes, optimizer is dead for quite a long time … it was really a useful toolkit at that time, I am feeling very sorry that it went under during the various course changes of sgi. This was one of the reasons for dirk and others to step in and create OpenSG (which I use, sorry for the shameless plug) so noone has to rely on a closed source scenegraph api that can be pulled anytime.
If you are interested in performer (which is also a very powerful toolkit from sgi) bear in mind that you need runtime licenses for every deployed instance of your application.