To run the SHaPe Viewer, you will need to have ActiveState Perl, and a third party OpenGL library installed on your system.

Win32 Instructions: Once Perl is installed (or if it already is installed) on your system, open up a new command window
(Start menu->run->"cmd"). Type:

"ppm install http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/OpenGL.ppd"

and press Enter. If Perl is set up properly, this will install the OpenGL library.

To run the viewer, open a command window to a directory containing the script, and the shapefile you wish to view, and type:

"perl shapeview.pl <model filename>"

and press Enter.

The keys to control the model movement within the viewer are A/S/D/W/Q/Z.


download: shapeview.pl

Thanks to Jackmn for the code, and the permission to mirror it.