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Using pythonOCC's render function in Django

I have a Django application and I'm using pythonOCC package in it. I have to display the 3D .stl, .stp, .igs files in my template. I have tried to use render() function which in x3dom_renderer.py file in the package.

Here is my view:

from OCC.Extend.DataExchange import read_step_file
from OCC.Display.WebGl import x3dom_renderer
from OCC.Core.BRep import BRep_Builder
from OCC.Core.TopoDS import TopoDS_Shape
from OCC.Core.BRepTools import breptools_Read

def index(request):
    shape = read_step_file('test.stp')
    my_renderer = x3dom_renderer.X3DomRenderer()
    my_renderer.DisplayShape(shape)
    my_renderer.render()
    return render(request, 'index.html')

When I call the render() function, the following outputs appear on my vscode console and since flask app created by pythonocc instead of django starts running in localhost, my index.html is never rendered.

The output when I call the render function:

 **  Model Complete Check List  **
Check:1 -- Entity (n0:id) 5:#14   Type:CURVE_STYLE
Parameter n0.2 (curve_font) not an Entity
Check:2 -- Entity (n0:id) 6:#15   Type:CURVE_STYLE
Parameter n0.2 (curve_font) not an Entity
Check:3 -- Entity (n0:id) 7:#16   Type:CURVE_STYLE
Parameter n0.2 (curve_font) not an Entity
Check:4 -- Entity (n0:id) 8:#17   Type:CURVE_STYLE
Parameter n0.2 (curve_font) not an Entity
Check:5 -- Entity (n0:id) 9:#18   Type:CURVE_STYLE
Parameter n0.2 (curve_font) not an Entity
Check:6 -- Entity (n0:id) 10:#19   Type:CURVE_STYLE
Parameter n0.2 (curve_font) not an Entity
## x3dom webgl renderer - render axes/planes : True - axes/plane zoom factor : 1
| meshing shapes... 100%
## Serving C:\Users\imgea\AppData\Local\Temp\tmppopa5opx
## using Flask
## Open your webbrowser at the URL: http://localhost:8080

As you see in this x3dom_renderer.py https://github.com/tpaviot/pythonocc-core/blob/master/src/Display/WebGl/x3dom_renderer.py, the html file is created in this python file and is shaped according to the image which I sent. How can I use this renderer in my Django template? Could you give any suggestions?

Solution

  • The render function starts its own server so I think this one should not be called. It might be useful to extend the Renderer class, to add the functions to it that we miss. In this case an option to render to string, so we can use the output.

    from OCC.Extend.DataExchange import read_step_file
from OCC.Display.WebGl import x3dom_renderer
from OCC.Core.BRep import BRep_Builder
from OCC.Core.TopoDS import TopoDS_Shape
from OCC.Core.BRepTools import breptools_Read
from django.http.response import HttpResponse


class CustomX3DomRenderer(x3dom_renderer.X3DomRenderer):
    def render_to_string(self):
        # N.B. Writing the html file to disk isn't really needed; you 
        # could also build the string directly without writing it
        # to disk
        self.generate_html_file(self._axes_plane, self._axes_plane_zoom_factor)
        return open(self._html_filename, 'r').read()


def index(request):
    shape = read_step_file('test.stp')
    my_renderer = CustomX3DomRenderer()
    my_renderer.DisplayShape(shape)
    return HttpResponse(my_renderer.render_to_string())