Vulcan

Vulcan is a 3D rendering application that displays computer-aided design (CAD) models, engineering drawings, and point clouds in the Palantir platform.

With Vulcan, you can:

• View CAD models stored in the Ontology as CAD objects. See Schema reference for the object types and properties that Vulcan requires.
• Annotate, measure, section, and recolor parts of a model. See Tools.
• Embed the 3D viewport in a Workshop module. See Embed Vulcan in a Workshop module.

Annotations, measurements, and section planes saved from Vulcan are Ontology objects, so they can drive other Palantir platform workflows such as alerts and dashboards.

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Getting started

Vulcan renders 3D models that are stored in the Ontology as CAD objects. A CAD object is an Ontology object with a property carrying the cad_media_reference type class, which holds a media reference to a model file.

In the standalone application, select Add to scene, then choose a CAD object. Repeat this process to add more models to the scene.

In the Vulcan widget, the widget configuration determines which models load. See Choose a CAD object.

Supported model formats

Vulcan renders three kinds of geometry: mesh models, which approximate the surface of each part with triangles; 2D engineering drawings; and point clouds. You can point a CAD object's media reference property (the property carrying the cad_media_reference type class) at a file in any of the following formats without conversion:

• Mesh formats: GLB, GLTF, STL, OBJ, PLY, 3MF
• Engineering drawings: DXF
• Point clouds: LAS, LAZ