Proposal for `kittycad file view` command about cli HOT 6 CLOSED

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I am ignorant of the technical details of this that would make it feasible or unfeasible, and whether it would be better for us if the engine ran in the cloud or locally on the host machine for this purpose, so I'm just throwing this out for discussion.

I will say that I think this pairs nicely with another command that I think would be very useful for CI pipelines where visual debugging and sanity checks are necessary, a kittycad file snapshot command:

kittycad file convert suzanne.obj suzanne.step
  | kittycad file snapshot --camera-x 20 --camera-zoom .8 --camera-fov 110 --src-format step --output-format jpg

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@franknoirot Stumbling on this now, I feel like this would also be super helpful to the Github Chrome extension? Would unlock major perf improvements and much larger file diffs or viewing

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Oh right @pierremtb you would be able to bypass ThreeJS and most client-side JS! You'd probably hit a /view endpoint instead of a CLI command though right?

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@franknoirot Yeah! All the mem intensive stuff basically. Combined diffs would have to require more work on the backend but would make a lot of sense too

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once we have import in engine this is pretty easy with the same stuff as #312

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