AutoCAD DXF translator !
17-Jun-88 02:08:14
Sb: #129829-AutoCAD DXF translator !
Fm: Ed Silva 70507,134
To: John Foust 72237,135
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Why, Will I wanted to Import Amiga3D files to AutoCAD or to the DXF format
? the reasoning behind this 'tranlator' is to use AutoCAD or whatever
other 3d CAD program supports the DXF format to create 3D objects and have
them render/animated on the Amiga, a similiar Amiga ala IBM that is A targa
Board, mem , software will be about $6,000 dollars plus the IBM ( or clone
) computer ! plus a DXF translator for the software doing the rendering, an
board by SubLogic cost a 'meager' $4,999, a board by NTH cost another
'meager' $6,000 true these boards have palettes of 16 million colors, so
what, you can only have about one million on the screen. Now the translator
I HAVE does everything execept BLOCKS and TEXT ( this is a tough one to
translate ). And about your RedLotus question it is very similar to
POLYGONS and/or POLYLINES in AutoCAD execept they cannot be 'curved' just
'extruded'. For the record I am almost sure that all of the fancy 3D
objects in VideoScape were NOT done by hand in VideoScape that is with a
text editor ( come on ! ) and in the event they were done , whoever did
them is out of his/her mind or crazy by now…:).
Ed Silva
p.s. Thanks for the comments and for talking last nite 🙂