It appears that 3DS, the company that makes Solidworks, has released what seems to be a system-level version of OGLE.

gltony writes:

This week I found a very similar tool to OGLE.
3D PrintScreen is free software that allows the capture of OpenGL data (geometry, normal, lines, colours and Textures!!). I have tested it, and the result is very interesting.

This tool is really easy to use:
- installation
- launch it
- launch an OpenGL software (no special setting needed, no dll to copy)
- press F10 and it’s done

This soft generate 3D XML files (some kind of new XML format like colada
I guess). Those files can be opened by a free viewer called 3D XML player.

I’ve tested it on games. The results with Quake 3 and wolfenstein are really good; we can see the mesh with textures, the billboards with alpha channel…. impressive. However the results on google earth are really bad :o( The captures of second life doesn’t works with textures but the result is nice without (there is a setting to disable the capture of textures).
No test on WoW for the moment (I’m a guild wars player ;-)

I heard that 3D PrintScreen works also really well with CAD softwares.
I think I will use OGLE or 3D print screen to be sure to get a good result cause for me they look complementary.

If anyone wants to test it, here is the download link:

http://www.3ds.com/products-solutions/3d-for-all/3d-xml/3d-printscreen/

He also said that the software appears to be posted on September 13, 2006, so maybe they took a cue from our project. I am glad that the idea is taking off, but right off the bat I realized that it probably won't work very well for SL or WoW because it probably doesn't have the OpenGL Vertex Program-disabling features of GLIntercept, for which OGLE is a plugin.