Export as isometric png icon

[coxifred]

Problem

It will be awesome to export rack as an isometric png picture.

Proposed solution

I think you could do that with css 3d transformation

Alternatives considered

No response

How important is this to you?

Nice to have

[ggfevans]

🤔 you're onto something here, I will chew on this.

[ggfevans]

Created research spike #293 to explore isometric/3D view implementation approaches for both the canvas and exports.

[ggfevans]

Feature issue created: #299 (targeted for v0.8.0 milestone)

This will implement the isometric export option based on the research spike #293.

[ggfevans]

@coxifred check this out, here is a rough proof of concept of what it could look like: isometric-poc-single.svg

[coxifred]

Excellent !
Nice work

Yes working on something looking like

https://stan-smith.github.io/FossFLOW/

And i would like to export rack as isometric png to describe my infrastructure.

Thanks

[ggfevans]

ah cool, thanks for the link & inspiration.

So, were you using (or trying to) FossFLOW to model your rack and found Rackula? I'm curious on your context.

This thread makes me wonder whether a sort of 3d-rack-as-a-service sort of offering is a feasible and marketable idea. I'm not certain how many people really want 3D racks but damn they do look cool.

[coxifred]

Yeah, working on a project where infrastructure is discovered dynamically and displayed as isometric representation.

And due to the fact that we can put tags on every digital assets (vm, physical, switches,..) , we can specify which rack, which room, which alley....

We could also for example make server blink for intervention. To be short a digital twin of each it room.

Use cases:

• Presentation / Dashboard
• Intervention preparation.
• Not only IT, but also factories, liveshow..

Fred

[ggfevans]

ahh, interesting - so these outputs would potentially, in your use case, need to be addressable per-device. I could imagine someone needing to find a specific device in a specific rack (or even a specific port on a switch) and being able to make that blink to identify would be convenient.