Common Import Settings

Basic Import Options

Import Options dialog displays file name and currently selected file format. If file format was wrongly detected, you may select another format using Open As combo box.

Options of the right are file format specific. To reset thouse options to defaults, click on Settings button and select Reset to Defaults.

Additional Options

These options are available in: C4D, JTOpen, DXF, GLTF, STEP and many other file types.

Load Companion XML file	If checked, FinalMesh will search for XML file with same name. For instanec for 3d.3ds, xml file shoulf be 3d.3ds.xml This XML file should be located in same folder. XML file may contain metadata for each object and attributes, like opacity. For description of XML file, see below.
Sort Nodes	Sort root or all nodes alphabetically.

XML file

This feature is part of Professional Edition.

Purpose of this file is in making small modifications or additional features to 3d file. For instance, may write metadata from database to this xml file and it will be imported. This may be helpful if your CAD software can't write metadata to 3d file, or this format does not support metadata. [ About updated files]

<root [string comparision options]>
<node name="Name of Node1" [string comparision options]>
<attributes [new attributes]/>
<node name="Name of Sub Node" [string comparision options]>
 <meta>
   <item id="KeyA" value="Value A"/>
   <item id="KeyB" value="Value B"/>
</meta>
<material name="material name" id="1">
<action type="action id">
<transform rotation="" scale="" translation="" reset="" />
<select/>
</node>
</node>
<node name="Name of Node2">
</node>
<view> [viewport options]</view>
<modelViews> [list of favorites]</modelViews>
<materials> [list of materials]</materials>
</root>

Global Data

view	Viewport options. Use this file to define default viewport. This may be helpful if you want to open file and automatically zoom to any part in 3d scene. .xml file with such view information may be generated using Information pane.
modelViews	List of model views. This list also may be generated using Information pane.
materials	List of additional materials. Each material may be generated from Materials Panel.

Object Data

name	Attribute is used for object searching. String comparision options are taken into account.
attributes	New 3d node attributes.
select	Select this node.
material	New or additional material for this object. Attributes are: name - name of material, id - of material in multimaterial object.

String comparision options

Options defined in root node, will be global options. Options defined in nested nodes may override global options.

matchcase	Match case when enabled, a find 3d node search algorithm will be case-sensitive. This option is ON by default.
wholeworld	Match whole word when enabled, a find 3d node search algorithm will only return whole word matches.
wildcards	If this option box is selected, you can use statndard notations (with *, ? symbols )to define patterns of text to match . This option is ON by default.
recursive	Search whole subtree after successful name comparison if this options is on.

Transform

All members in attributes are optional.

reset	Remove old transformations.
rotation/rot	XYZ euler angles. In degrees. 3 floats, separated by comma.
scale	XYZ. Scaling. This value may be specified via one float or three floats separated by comma.
translation/pos	XYZ. Position. 3 floats, separated by comma.

Attributes