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What is Onshape doing in browser vs in the cloud?
matthew_ferraro
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I'm curious to know how the shapes get rendered into pixels:
Is Onshape running the rendering locally on my browser using something like Three.js? If so I'd love to know what library it's using!
Or is it streaming video from a cloud computer to my browser? If it's streaming, what rendering engine is running in the cloud? Is it DirectX running on Windows machines, or using Metal or Vulkan or something?
I'm also curious about the b-rep engine:
I understand Onshape uses Parasolid, the Cadillac of b-rep engines! Is it running as webassembly in the browser or is it running natively on a cloud instance somewhere?
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