leavauchier / cityjson-paraview-plugin

Reader for CityJSON files in ParaView

CityJSON Reader Plugin for ParaView

A plugin that allows you to read CityJSON files directly into ParaView for modeling.

https://github.com/cityjson
https://www.cityjson.org/
https://3d.bk.tudelft.nl/

How to use

1. Download the latest binary here (Linux only at the moment)
2. Open up ParaView
3. Go to Tools->Manage Plugins...->Load New ...
4. Choose the downloaded CityJSONReader plugin
5. Load whatever CityJSON file you want

How to compile

1. Get a copy of ParaView
2. Build ParaView (see their instructions if necessary)
3. Get a copy of this repo
4. Build this:
   1. Go to the folder you have the source to this plugin
   2. mkdir build
   3. cmake .. -DParaView_DIR=<PATH TO BUILT PARAVIEW>
   4. cmake --build ..
   5. make
5. You can find your built plugin in lib\plugins\CityJSONReader as .dll for Windows .so for Mac/Linux