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#Generic 3D -> 3DStudio

    04-Oct-91 18:24:29
Fm: Larry Minton 74010,3076
To: [F] Grant Blaha [Adesk] 72540,1062
Would you do me a favor? Would you, Scottv, and Peter (?) please get together and sing the same song regarding Generic 3D DXF output? The following is a quote from a previous message from Scottv (sorry Scott!): "When we start to get into 3D entities then things get trickier. DXF has a 3D FACE entity, BUT it is limited to 3 or 4 sides at the most. So when we have a 3 or 4 sided Polygon we can convert it into a 3D FACE, but when we have a >4 sided polygon we have to convert to something else. I believe we chose lines because the main consideration was getting things into ACAD. And Polylines are a versitile entity which can be manipulated in a number of ways." Is there a way to bring a pentagon from G3D into 3DS as a usable 3d object? Thanx, LAM