What is a IV File Type?
The IV files can be used to customize various 3D elements such as geometry, lighting, cameras, textures, sequencing and color. There are several prefabricated forms that can be customized in the IV files including cones, cubes, cylinders, spheres, 2D text and 3D text.
Open Inventor was developed by Silicon Graphics International (SGI), which released an open source version. Opened for a third-party license, and was maintained commercially by the Visualization Sciences Group (VSG) in 2009. In 2012, however, VSG was acquired by the Field Electron and Ion (FEI) Company, which was then acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific in 2016.
Open Inventor is built on OpenGL and is intended to provide an upper layer of d' abstraction for 3D programming.