Re: converting FROM pfb ?

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From: Brian Furtaw (brian++at++sgi.com)
Date: 04/28/2000 10:54:22


My apologies for the misinformation I assumed that since MultiGen was
Performer based it could read all the file types Performer reads. Bad
assumption.

Brian

Ran Yakir wrote:
>
> Does MultiGen read pfb files? What version?
>
> Brian Furtaw wrote:
>
> > You could read it into Multigen and save it out as flight, assuming you
> > have a copy of Multigen. I don't know of an Inventor file writer and the
> > Inventor database format does not support all of the node features that
> > are in the Performer scenegraph.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> > Francois Sillion wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello Performers,
> > >
> > > I have access to a complex model in pfb format, which has been created from a
> > > very large number of individual files of various formats. Is there a tool
> > > available to convert this into another 3D format (e.g., inventor) ?
> > > the pfb file is fine for direct use in our Performer based applications, but
> > > we would also like to be able to edit and otherwise manipulate the 3d objects
> > > in a modeling program.
> > >
> > > It seems the libpfb code has some (empty) stubs for functions that would
> > > output Inventor files. Does this code exist anywhere, or has anyone developed
> > > a similar tool?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
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