Alejandro Saez (cano++at++krusty.engr.sgi.com)
Tue, 10 Nov 1998 10:28:20 -0600
> If for very simple cases is it true, it's not the case for more complicate
> cases (using inlines for example).
Well , some cases is better than none, and since inlines are not there in
Inventor, it won't be a problem when going from Inventor to VRML. I've done it
lot of times, and I get problems every now and then (very few actually) and is
just a matter of hand editing a couple of lines.
> In the other hand, most of translators between fileformat assume ONLY the
> geometry but NOT the texture or not the Inlines or even not the name after
the
> "DEF".
> So, please i think that we have to be more realist and less enthousiasmistic
> when we speack about such file formats tools!
> BUT, IF YOU KNOW A GOOD TRANSLATOR BETWEEN VRML2 and INVENTOR,
> assuming geometry, texture with a url imagename, Inlinre coherency, user name
> definition etc ... --->>> Please tell me!!!
Read my previous posting in response to Christian
>
> Have a nice day!
>
> Olivier Aune.
>
>
>
> ******************************************************************************
> >
> > From: "Michael Olbert (JS)" <olbi++at++fmr.maschinenbau.tu-darmstadt.de>
> > Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 15:16:02 +0100
> > Subject: Converters: vrml to iv or vrml to dxf
> >
> > Hello there,
> >
> > is there a converter on the net to transform vrml to inventor or DXF ?
> >
> > What about vrml1 to vrml2 ?
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
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> >
> > From: "Alejandro Saez" <cano++at++krusty.engr.sgi.com>
> > Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 12:06:11 -0600
> > Subject: Re: Converters: vrml to iv or vrml to dxf
> >
> > On Nov 9, 3:16pm, Michael Olbert (JS) wrote:
> > > Subject: Converters: vrml to iv or vrml to dxf
> > > Hello there,
> > >
> > > is there a converter on the net to transform vrml to inventor or DXF ?
> > Comercialy, Polytrans is by far the most complete 3D file format I've seen,
> > check out http://www.okino.com/
> >
> > For the specific question of going from vrml1 to inventor the answer is
> > VRML1 IS inventor 2.1 in other words VRML1 == iv2.0, so if you have an
> inventor
> > 2.0 file, it's first line should be something like:
> >
> > #Inventor V2.0 ascii
> >
> > just change it to read
> >
> > #VRML V1.0 ascii
> >
> > Of course you need the file to be in ascii format.
> >
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