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+Open Asset Import Library (_assimp_) 
+========================================================================
+
+
+    Table of contents
+
+	1.		Overview
+	 1.1		Supported file formats
+	 1.2		File structure
+	2.		Build the library
+	3. 		Where to get help
+	4.		License
+
+
+
+1.	Overview
+------------------------------
+
+Open Asset Import Library is a Open Source library designed to load various 3d file formats and convert them into a shared, in-memory format. It supports more than 30 file formats. It also supports exporting files to a few selected file formats.
+
+Its short name is _assimp_, which is an unintended joke (the abbreviation is derived from _Asset Importer_). 
+
+__Note__: this `README` refers to the file structure used by release packages, which differs in some points from the development trunk.
+
+----------------
+ 1.1	Supported file formats
+----------------
+
+The library provides importers for a lot of file formats, including:
+
+- 3DS
+- BLEND 
+- DAE (Collada)
+- IFC-STEP 
+- ASE
+- DXF
+- HMP
+- MD2
+- MD3 
+- MD5
+- MDC
+- MDL
+- NFF
+- PLY
+- STL
+- X 
+- OBJ 
+- SMD
+- LWO 
+- LXO 
+- LWS 
+- XML 
+- TER 
+- AC3D 
+- MS3D 
+
+Exporters include:
+
+- DAE (Collada)
+- STL
+- OBJ
+	
+See [the full list here](http://assimp.sourceforge.net/main_features_formats.html).
+
+
+----------------
+1.2 Repository structure
+----------------
+
+Open Asset Import Library is implemented in C++ (but provides both a C and a 
+C++ish interface). The directory structure is:
+
+	/bin		Folder for binaries, only used on Windows
+	/code		Source code
+	/contrib	Third-party libraries
+	/doc		Documentation (doxysource and pre-compiled docs)
+	/include	Public header C and C++ header files.
+	/lib		Static library location for Windows.
+	/obj		Object file location for Windows.
+	/port		Ports to other languages and scripts to maintain those. 
+	/test		Unit- and regression tests, test suite of models.
+	/tools		Tools (viewer, command line `assimp`).
+	/samples	A small number of samples to illustrate possible 
+                        use cases for Assimp.
+	/workspaces	Build enviroments for vc,xcode,... (deprecated,
+			CMake has superseeded all legacy build options!)
+
+
+
+2. Build the library
+------------------------------
+
+Take a look into the `INSTALL` file. Or fire up CMake with the usual steps.
+
+
+------------------------------
+3. Where to get help
+------------------------------
+
+For more information, visit [our website](http://assimp.sourceforge.net/). Or check out the `./doc`- folder, which contains the official documentation in HTML format.
+(CHMs for Windows are included in some release packages and should be located right here in the root folder).
+
+If the documentation doesn't solve your problems, try our forums at SF.net 
+> [Open Discussion](http://sourceforge.net/projects/assimp/forums/forum/817653) 
+> [General Help](http://sourceforge.net/projects/assimp/forums/forum/817654)
+
+For development stuff, there is also a mailing list, _assimp-discussions_ 
+  [subscribe here]( https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assimp-discussions) 
+
+
+------------------------------
+4. License
+------------------------------
+
+The license of the Asset Import Library is based on the modified, __3-clause BSD__-License, which is a very liberal license. An _informal_ summary is: do whatever you want, but include Assimp's license text with your product - and don't sue us if our code doesn't work.
+
+Note that, unlike LGPLed code, you may link statically to Assimp.
+For the formal details, see the `LICENSE` file. 
+
+------------------------------
+------------------------------
+
+(This repository is a mirror of the SVN repository located [here](https://assimp.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/assimp). Thanks to [klickverbot](https://github.com/klickverbot) for setting this up!)
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