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#Sequential Targa files

    07-Nov-93 00:30:03
Fm: Dave Taylor 71460,3367
To: GEORGE MENDOZA 73063,2667
George… I just read your last response about sequential .TGA files and was curious about something…how do you translate from your FEA program to 3D-Studio? I too am using an FEA (actually we call it Discrete Element Method, same diff), to calculate the position of 800-1000 steel balls in a rotating mill. I thought about using the 3DS ASCII file import and writing a conversion util from FEA->3DS, but the filesize would become unmanageable (600-800MB!) The next thing I thought of was a DXF file, but this too gets large quickly since it is also ascii. Any pointers? Thanks, Dave