R13 solids to 3DS
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I would like to bring solids created with AutoCAD R13 into 3D Studio, but
according to the AutoCAD manual the 3DSout command ignores solids. I am posting
a simultanious question over in the AutoCAD forum, but would welcome comments
here too.
Andrew
Andrew,
3DSOUT does not ignore solids. I works ok.
Set FACETRES to a vaule (maybe 3) to control the tesselation of curves.
Also when you get your geometry into 3DS use
Modify/Edge/AutoEdge to clean up the tesselation lines.
Mark
<<I would like to bring solids created with AutoCAD R13 into 3D Studio, but
according to the AutoCAD manual the 3DSout command ignores solids. I am posting
a simultanious question over in the AutoCAD forum, but would welcome comments
here too.>>
If you are refering to entities created with the SOLID command, then that is
true, that entity will not be processed through 3DSOUT. If, however you are
talking about ACIS entities, 3DSOUT will support those objects.
-Brian
Brian,
It all comes clear now!
It has been so many years now since I last used an AutoCAD 'solid' I had
forgotten even that they existed! I assumed that the manual was referring to
the ACIS solids which were introduced in R13.
Andrew