But why have another node that is similar to the Separator, but
slightly different? Seems a waste of parsing effort to me, and just
makes things more complex.
I think there are two issues
1) annotation - this is text (maybe should be generalized into any
geometry) which always follows the viewpoint, and has some scaling
and hidden surface rules - you can get around the z-buffer problems
by drawing any annotation objects last (and switching the z-buffer
off). Annotation is a special effect required in some applications
where some description, normally textual, is required
2) auto-facing objects - these just follow the user. They are
treated like all other object in the rendering pass - they are
z-buffered etc. and drawn to a fixed scale.
I get the feeling the issue here is that Inventor doesn't support
this - is this the case?
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