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ACAD/3DS interface ??

    26-Sep-94 17:10:11
Fm: John Redfern 100115,1014
To: Phillip L. Miller 74710,3061
I take your point about AutoSurf, but the thing is that the two strings of manufacture and visualisation should be able to integrate much more. I've been commissioned to produce a model of a new kind of engine. It is for a small company and they would like to kill two birds with one stone and have CNC data and product visualisation and video from the same data input. AutoSurf, Autocad and AME all have the facility to convert surface or model information into mesh or 3d face data. It is this conversion and then translation to 3ds faces that I would like to see improved. It seems to me that although Autocad and 3d Studio have leapt ahead in the last 3 years the connectivity has not progressed much from the old DXF/3DS utility. Maybe I'm setting my sights too high. John