view STL files

[a7hybnj2]

Description

feature request: view, see, and track changes (visually) with .stl and other 3d files. (like github does)

Thanks!

I find this an amazing feature that github has and it would be even more amazing if gitea could implement similar functionality.

[lunny]

Maybe you can do it via third-party tools and add some config on app.ini

[a7hybnj2]

If anyone has had success with third-party tools let me know. I would gladly try it out but I have no idea where to even start.

Thanks.

[lunny]

At first, are there any command line tools or scripts could convert the files to HTML files?

[sapk]

How do you run gitea ? on windows, linux, ... ? Do you use the docker image ?

[sapk]

I have a script that can render .scad and .stl file but it will need openscad that may not be easily installable depending of your installation https://gist.github.com/sapk/ce1c246dd39a5f434554b31d0ca8ecdb

[a7hybnj2]

@sapk I am running in a freebsd jail installed with ports.

I will take a look at that script but it seems like a static render...right?

github does this: https://imgur.com/a/eZxCIHI which is amazing. It also highlights the parts of the STLs when you look at the commit diffs...

[lafriks]

We could use something like this: https://github.com/kaitlynhova/Three.js-STL-Viewer

[sapk]

@lafriks there is various JS lib mostly all not maintained. The more advanced I found is https://github.com/kovacsv/Online3DViewer I feel like we should not support it but allow the use of direct HTML (no sanitize) via external render if requested by option (and add libs under public).

[zeripath]

Would it be better to still in general sanitise but allow an external renderer to add some standard page sections?

[vmario89]

i am looking for the same feature because i am doing tons of open hardware stuff with git. the github feature to render STL is really nice but i think github blows up and slows down. so need and want to host viewable cad files with clean versioning for my own. i am running gitea for a year now.

maybe the stl feature could be done with Githubiverse templates and if another missing feature 'pages' would be there:

• https://github.com/cscott/thing-tracker
• https://github.com/garyhodgson/githubiverse-template
• https://github.com/garyhodgson/thing-tracker-site-template

[dsmrs]

at Github they use Three.js for the STL viewer.
We could indeed use https://github.com/kovacsv/Online3DViewer it seems to be the more active open-source STL online viewer.

The process for the diff is explained here: https://github.blog/2013-09-17-3d-file-diffs/ Not a 3D expert, but it doesn't look that complex no? (but CPU/GPU consuming for the gitea server).

[vmario89]

gitea added this feature in documentation. i integrated madeleine.js (three.js wrapper) into our environent succesfully. i had to adjust some things to make it render with complete width on smarthpones and computers (tested with firefox and chrome)

https://gitea.fablabchemnitz.de/MarioVoigt/Madeleine.js-for-Gitea

happy for more fixes to make it clean.

the docs for integration are provided here: https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/customizing-gitea/