Welcome to AssimpCy’s documentation!¶

Installation¶

First, be sure to download, compile and install Assimp, from the official page:

http://www.assimp.org/

You’ll need Cmake, and Microsoft Visual Studio for Windows or Gcc for Linux and Mac (optionally, Mingw-w64).
Second, install Numpy with:
```
pip install numpy
```
Third, download the zip package from

https://github.com/jr-garcia/AssimpCy

If you placed the headers and libraries in the dafault locations, extract the file and run:
```
python setup.py build_ext
```
If setup can’t find the headers or you placed them somewhere else, run:
```
python setup.py build_ext -I'path/to/assimp/headers' -L'path/to/library/'
```

Attention

If you get an error saying: .. error:

Cannot open include file: 'types.h':

Be sure that the path to headers ends with ‘\assimp’

Cython is only necessary to rebuild the .cpp files, which you can do with:

python setup.py build_ext --force

Finally, run:

python setup.py install

To install the package. Check *basic_demo.py* for a simple example or read Usage.

Usage¶

Todo.

About¶

AssimpCy aims to be a fast binding for Assimp .It makes extensive use of memcpy function to achieve this goal, leading to awesome speed ups over `Pyassimp <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyassimp>`_.

To check this claim, install Pyassimp and the run:

versus_demo.py

The simples way to start using AssimpCy is to do:

pip install AssimpCy

If this does not work, please refer to Installation for alternate methods and info.

USAGE¶

Check *basic_demo.py* for a simple example or read Usage.

Note

There is no need to release the scene. This job is performed by aiImportFile()