CompuServe Messages

Angelo: No, you are very clear now and I don't agree with you. You can't send disjointed faces or pmesh surfaces to 3DS and guarantee that all of the face normals will be aligned. If you leave the meshes together (closed) then you have to separate them into objects once you're in 3DS. You get to do the work one way or the other unless you simply create the objects in 3DS in the first place. And that is what I was trying to explain to the person that I was talking with… and why I noted that if you guarantee to your customers that faces will be aligned you need to make a more detailed statement than that… or you will end up with some unhappy customers. I have been round and round about this with Gary Yost and I finally understand what is happening since he has been patient enough to explain it to me. Since it is to our benefit to originate the drawings in AutoCAD, I find it best to use two sided materials in 3DS and let the computer do the work. There is no big advantage to make buildings up from solids, either. Too cumbersome and big file oriented for me. Yes, it would be nice to tell the client how much his building weighs..<g>… but we will stick with building the thing face by face. It does seem, BTW, that DXF23DS does do a better job of converting the file, and it is MUCH faster than 3DS 1.0 at doing it, too! C#