EXPLORING
THE PAPER MACHINE VRML WORLD
By: The Paper Industry Web
This tutorial assumes your PC has been previously set up to view VRML Worlds.
To find out if your PC is VRML ready, click the image of the paper machine in the Paper Industry Web's VRML gallery. Click here to go to the gallery. If the VRML World does not start, click here to reset the VRML configuration requirements of your PC. Click the image below to see an enlarged image of what your screen will look like when using the Cortona VRML Client plug- in. Other plug-ins will have a different look.
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papermachine VRML World loads. |
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six images below show the opening images using the Viewpoint List: |
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| Viewpoint List | Viewpoint List -view from control room | Viewpoint List - dryer section view |
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| Viewpoint List - backtender's view | Viewpoint List - 4th hand's view at winder | Viewpoint List - view from gantry crane |
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Below are random views generated down the paper machine: Due to the complexity of writing VRML language manually the Paper Machine World shows a limited amount of details. Items like bearing housings, mountings, ect are not shown. |
| wet end looking to headbox | standing between 3rd press & 1st first dryer | lying on floor looking up to size press |
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| standing between calender & reel | standing in winder slitter section | standing top of winder looking to wet end |
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Note:
As as a matter of information it took the equivalent of 62 - 8 hour days to manually write the VRML language for The Paper Machine in Virtual Reality VRML World. That time includes 34 scale layouts to plot the coordinates. If you are curious, click here to view the VRML code for this VRML World.
