Talk:JT (visualization format)

I was told by a guy that worked with EAI that JT originally stood for 'jupiter tessellation' before being renamed DirectModel - that may be useful to add in history if we can get some verification. I did some searching and get hits on Jupiter Tesselation and Jupiter Tessellation such as this one: http://www.mbtmag.com/current_issues/2006/jan/integInfra4.asp --146.122.71.143 22:43, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Jupiter
Yes, JT was originally developped by HP as the "DirectModel" format, as you can read here: http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/img/sommer/seminar/Ausarbeitung-Jupiter.pdf

Even if I'm not fluent in German, I can see that "JT" was certainly an abreviation for Jupiter...

CADWatcher 08:55, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Origins of "JT"
Actually, JT/DirectModel was a joint application development project between HP's graphics team in Fort Collins, CO and EAI's development team in Ames, Iowa. JT as also a bit of an inside joke in that EAI's Director of Technology at the time was Jeff Trom.

Here is another interesting doc on this subject: http://www.gris.uni-tuebingen.de/people/staff/bartz/proj/large/paper/pvg2001.pdf

Brad Halls 15:41, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

JT with Teamcenter
can any one explain abt JT with Teamcenter?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.201.222.196 (talk) 09:08, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
 * answering this way too late, but providing it for future reference. DirectModel files in Teamcenter can be viewed in the Teamcenter Viewer tab or standalone viewer (which may also provide editing capability, depending on license). They also can be viewed in the Active Workspace client Viewer tab, which adds image capture and markup in recent versions. NX and Catia integration can generate DirectModel files automatically on save (others I don't know), as well. 209.181.248.181 (talk) 17:51, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

JT Open
Does anybody know what 'Open' means in this context? What is the license? Is it FLOSS compatible (GPL/BSD/etc)? If I want to add JT support to an Open Source project, is that possible? If anybody knows, a license section on the main page would be useful. Thx. GyroMagician (talk) 18:07, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Open seems to be advertisement more than actual policy as one need to be a member (and pay of this) of a JTOpen program in order to get access to the SDK. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.220.90.37 (talk) 00:18, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

it could also be an attempt on the part of Siemens to muscle in on IBM turf, which uses the term jt open to refer to the i5OS java access API specification on sourceforge. why the brand confusion is not being contested by either is beyond me. and why there is not a wiki on the sourceforge project, i dunno. maybe a wiki controller should be notified. Wessonjoe (talk) 16:45, 26 October 2011 (UTC)wessonjoe

I don't consider the statement "Using the toolkit also ensures 100% data compatibility." to be entirely true. The JTOpen Consortium basically specifies a subset of the full JT Spec which they are willing to support with the API. The ends up having the effect that things like 2D artifacts (STRIPSET, LINE, POINT, etc) aren't pulled in properly in all tools, with Siemens tools obviously faring much better than 3rd party ones. Elgordon (talk) 17:38, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

No special paragraph about JT2Go, but about more
Since LiteBox3D is also a free-to-use (also commercially usable free-of-charge) JT-Viewer. This paragraph shouldnt do Advertisement solely for JT2Go, but we should do a list of free (as in no price) and also of FLOSS-APIs and Tools. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.50.98.253 (talk) 13:57, 15 July 2016 (UTC)