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I am looking for a simple 3D drawing API for .net. The shapes I need to draw are:

Hollow Cylinders Hollow Spheres Hollow Cubes 3D lines 3D text to annotate the shapes

The functionality I am looking for is basic pan, rotate and zoom capabilities.

Any help would be appreciated.

Joel Coehoorn
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I think you want to look at WPF (window Presentation Foundation, XAML) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms747437.aspx

Cos Callis
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  • Thanks very much. I have looked at it and have drawn some basic shapes. I am hoping that there is an API that I can use in layer above WPF to do the drawing. – Dave P Apr 13 '11 at 14:28
  • Any API you are going to find is probably just an abstraction of the WPF. You will probably do yourself a better service by just learning WPF and XAML. In doing so you will also learn Silverlight. – Cos Callis Apr 13 '11 at 15:31
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I'll add to the list the library from Charles Petzold

There are some pre-packaged objects, such as a HollowCylinderMesh, various sphere and box objects, and teapots. Might be worth a look if only to see how they are coded.

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