Re: loaders
Tim Rohaly (rohaly++at++ARL.MIL)
Fri, 18 Aug 95 21:01:45 EDT
Michael Kelley <kelleym++at++csto.snap.org> wrote:
> You could save the .dgn to .dxf or IGES, convert it over to the OpenInventor
> format (using /usr/lib/Showcase/ift/DxfToIv for .dxf, or Acuris
> (phone 413-329-1969 or email 3dsoftware++at++acuris.com) they have an alpha
> loader for converting from IGES to Open Inventor), then use the OpenInventor
> Performer loader.
>
> On Fri, 18 Aug 1995, Renee Maheshwari wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Has anyone worked with Bentley Software's MicroStation CAD, and tried to open
> > models created in there in Performer? The native file format is .dgn - it's an> IGDS file format. Right now, we're trying to save the file as AutoCad dwg or
> > dxf and then load it into Performer, but running into problems when converting
> > the B-Spline surfaces to Polygon meshes, which seem to give us unconnected
> > segments. Has anyone tried the same thing? Our other option is to save it as
> > an IGES file, but we would need to create/find a loader for that. Has anyone
> > done that perhaps, or is that possible to do?
> >
> ____________________________________________________________________
> Michael Kelley
> Systems Programmer
> Information Sciences Institute
> kelleym++at++csto.snap.org
> (703) 243-9422
>
> ____________________________________________________________________
>
>
Actually, the translators are released now - free to SGI customers
(this means you!). And Acuris has been renamed to Abaco Systems, Inc.
To get the translators,
% ftp via.net
Name: anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:
ftp> bin
ftp> get pub/abaco/ivtrans/sgi/alltoiv_v1.tar
ftp> exit
You will get translators which will translate from
3DStudio, Alias, DXF, Iges, Wavefront, and Softimage to Inventor.
Your software should be able to generate at least one of these?
Then use the Open Inventor loader ...
Tim.
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