Adding a 3D sphere onto a 3D cube

Question

Hi, currently i have created a 3D cube and was thinking to create a 3D sphere so that the sphere can stay onto the cube. And so when the cube is being rotated, the sphere that is on the cube will move according too. Can any1 show me the code to create the sphere and add it to the existing Universe. I will paste my code of creating the 3D cube below. Hope you all can use my existing code and add the code for the sphere and show me. Thank you Very Much for your help.
* IconGlassPanel3D.java
* Created on October 30, 2006, 2:57 PM
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* and open the template in the editor.
package Pas3DGUI;
import CobraNet.Zone;
import DbConnection.DAOFactory;
import DbConnection.ZoneDAO;
import Pas2DGUI.ZoneIcons;
import com.sun.j3d.utils.geometry.Sphere;
import java.applet.Applet;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Frame;
import com.sun.j3d.utils.applet.MainFrame;
import com.sun.j3d.utils.geometry.ColorCube;
import com.sun.j3d.utils.universe.*;
import com.sun.j3d.utils.behaviors.mouse.*;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Point;
import javax.media.j3d.*;
import javax.vecmath.*;
import java.awt.Image;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.Enumeration;
* @author 042255f
public class IconGlassPanel3D extends Applet {
/** Creates a new instance of IconGlassPanel3D */
public BranchGroup createSceneGraph() {
// Create the root of the branch graph
BranchGroup objRoot = new BranchGroup();
TransformGroup objTransform = new TransformGroup();
objTransform.setCapability(TransformGroup.ALLOW_TRANSFORM_WRITE);
objTransform.setCapability(TransformGroup.ALLOW_TRANSFORM_READ);
objRoot.addChild(objTransform);
objTransform.addChild(new ColorCube(0.4));
MouseRotate myMouseRotate = new MouseRotate();
myMouseRotate.setTransformGroup(objTransform);
myMouseRotate.setSchedulingBounds(new BoundingSphere());
objRoot.addChild(myMouseRotate);
MouseTranslate myMouseTranslate = new MouseTranslate();
myMouseTranslate.setTransformGroup(objTransform);
myMouseTranslate.setSchedulingBounds(new BoundingSphere());
objRoot.addChild(myMouseTranslate);
MouseZoom myMouseZoom = new MouseZoom();
myMouseZoom.setTransformGroup(objTransform);
myMouseZoom.setSchedulingBounds(new BoundingSphere());
objRoot.addChild(myMouseZoom);
// Let Java 3D perform optimizations on this scene graph.
objRoot.compile();
return objRoot;
} // end of CreateSceneGraph method of MouseBehaviorApp
// Create a simple scene and attach it to the virtual universe
public IconGlassPanel3D() {
setLayout(new BorderLayout());
Canvas3D canvas3D = new Canvas3D(null);
add("Center", canvas3D);
BranchGroup scene = createSceneGraph();
// SimpleUniverse is a Convenience Utility class
SimpleUniverse simpleU = new SimpleUniverse(canvas3D);
// This will move the ViewPlatform back a bit so the
// objects in the scene can be viewed.
simpleU.getViewingPlatform().setNominalViewingTransform();
simpleU.addBranchGraph(scene);
} // end of IconGlassPanel (constructor)
// The following allows this to be run as an application
// as well as an applet
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hold the mouse button while moving the mouse to make the cube move.");
System.out.println(" left mouse button - rotate cube");
System.out.println(" right mouse button - translate cube");
System.out.println(" Alt+left mouse button - zoom cube");
Frame frame = new MainFrame(new IconGlassPanel3D(), 256, 256);
} // end of main (method of IconGlassPanel)
}

Answer 1

What I figured out was that the model MUST be saved in one of the file formats acrobat recognizes - it won't come in straight from AutoCAD's native .dwg format.  So I save it as a .SAT file and then it works as advertised.
Thanks for your response.