AutoCAD DXF translator !
15-Jun-88 03:32:46
Sb: #128956-AutoCAD DXF translator !
Fm: Ed Silva 70507,134
To: John Foust 72237,135
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John, yes you are right BUT the reason that people used their extruded
entities is because the DID not had any REAL #D entities to work with.
secondly to construct real objects ( 3d objects that is ) with non 3d
entitites is very difficult even in AutoCAD ( from 2.62 and lower ) since
autocad is NOT capable of doing anything with their 'fake' Z coordinate.
This was fixed in release 9 and the soon to be released release 10 of
AutoCAD has a vey powerful 3d EDITOR generator such as bezier curves,
Meshes and so on that you can construct by rotating 3d entities only
secondly extruded object are only used for flat type surfaces models such
as walls, vertical holoe cones and so on. anyway if you want more details
call AutoDESK and tell them that you want some more info on their release
10 of autoCAD.
by the way how will you construct the Redlotus, of the teapot from extruded
lines ? if you figure it out call AutoCAD and tell them ! so they won't
have to do release 11 🙂