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    29-Oct-93 16:27:37
Sb: #63740-translators
Fm: Bill Stamp 73220,3522
To: Paul Lind 71543,2104
Paul, We're trying to go from IDEAS to an animation. IDEAS can export an IGES file which is a decent start. But IGES just represents the surface. IDeally we'd like to get the entire 3D model from SDRC into an animation package. Wavefront is supposed to be able to import SDRC "Universal file format". (We havn't been able to demonstrate this yet, because SDRC's latest release changed their file format and Wavefront hasn't caught up yet. That should be fixed in a couple of months.) But what about 3D Studio? Is there a way to import the SDRC model? I guess the real question would be "Does anyone have a translator which would convert SDRC universal format into dxf file format? An SDRC to dxf file converter would enable me to bring the full 3 dimensional model into 3D Studio. You say you've used SDRC data to generate animations. What was your method of file export/import? What were the results like? Thanks, Bill