Re: Getting Started--need modeller

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Morten Eriksen (Morten.Eriksen++at++due.unit.no)
Mon, 9 Dec 1996 16:33:01 +0100 (MET)

> What are the commercial options? I would like to keep to something
> (for now) that dumps inventor (iv) format.

Medit is a great low-cost modeller, specially geared towards making
Performer scenes. Take a look at http://www.medit3d.com, there's a
demo version for free download.

It comes with importers and exporters for several different file
formats, and Inventor is among them. The file conversion tools aren't
very good, though, most of the attributes and hierarchies are lost in
the conversion process. But fear not, I'm 95% done with a
Medit->Inventor conversion tool which is "perfect" (i.e. conserves
materials, textures, environment mapping, LOD-trees, hierarchies, etc
etc). I'll let you know when I've completely finished it. :-)

Morten

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