3D Engine for Visual c#?

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Can anyone point me in the direction of a basic 3D engine that can be
used in visual c#?

I'm not after anything too fancy, I don't need heaps of texture &
lighting features. It's for a small CAD application and as such I
would just like something that can put shapes into a 3d space and then
orbit around them on the fly. Clash detection would be great, but not
100% neccesary.

I found irrlicht which sounded ideal (even though it had a lot of
extra un-needed features) but I've had a little trouble getting it to
run.. it ran with some mucking around on visual c# 2010 but I'm
comfortable with visual c# 2008 and would prefer to stick with that if
I can.

Thanks for any advice
 
Can anyone point me in the direction of a basic 3D engine that can be
used in visual c#?
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Is it that your standards are low, or that you don't want to have to deal
with a complicated API?

If the latter, then I'm not sure whether there's one out there.  But ifthe
former, then you don't need to lower your standards much at all, as there
are a few different ways to access the native 3D APIs using managed code.

XNA and the Managed Direct3D APIs are Microsoft's official answer to the
question.  XNA's audience suggests that might be one of the simpler options
out there.  There are also other managed wrappers for the Direct3D API,
including SharpDX, and the Windows API Code Pack.

I don't have much experience with most of those, so can't suggest which
would be most suitable for your needs (even if I had a complete
understanding of those needs).  But you can do a web search for "managed
Direct3D" and the like and turn up a number of options.

Pete
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Thanks for the info Pete.
It's not necessarily that my standards are low. It's more a case of
not wanting to deal with a complicated API.
I'll have a look in to your suggestions and see how they go.

Cheers
 
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