#Infinity DXF
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Help, please. I'm trying to read a .DXF created with Specul (MAC) into 3DS
(rel 1). 3DS can't recognize the format. Has anyone got a clue? Thanks.
Jeff,
DXF is not DXF !. If possible try to load it first in ACAD or another
PC(MAC) CAD program, save it again and import it once more.
If this don't work, try to export your geometry in other 3D-formats
like IGES, import it in a CAD program ……. I always found a way
to bring a geometry into 3DS.
Oh,… sorry you use Rel.1 of 3DS. UPDATE to Rel.2 because it's easier
and Rel.3 waits infront of our HD's <g>. DXFimport in Rel.1 doesn't work in
the most cases, but their is an utility wich converts a DXFinto3DS for
Rel.1. Perhaps you find it here in this forum. Search for DXF3DS.* or
somthing like that.
If not, ask your dealer for this utility.
Ingo
You might need to translate the Mac's carriage-return-only line endings to the
PC's carriage-return / line-feed combination line endings…
John-can a person take a .dxf Binary mesh file from AutoCAD into a MAC program
like StrataVision, Form Z? or something called Ray Dream?
I am sending you a package today-rachel
Few packages handle binary DXF. If they handle DXF, it's usually (by far) the
ASCII DXF. Binary DXF only saves about 25 percent versus ASCII, it takes 25
bytes per triangle or quad polygon. StrataVision does have a DXF import. I've
yet to get the new Strata they introduced at Siggraph, but I'll have it soon
and I'll be able to give better information. Just this morning, I determined
that the DXF import in Strata 1.4.1 was not able to import a large DXF exported
from 3DS.
There are other Mac 3D programs called Form Z and Ray Dream. I believe Form Z
can import DXF. I think Ray Dream can, too.
Sometimes I think I should write a book about this. 🙂 I'd like to draw a
large map of compatibility between programs. It might be better as a hypertext
document of some kind, or even a program that could goal-seek the appropriate
conversion between any two 3D programs. Hmm. Thanks for the idea! 🙂
I meant an AutoCAD/PC/plain DOS .DXF Binary File on the last message.r.
John / Jeff:
>> You might need to translate the Mac's carriage-return-only line endings
>> to the PC's carriage-return / line-feed combination line endings…
FYI – This is easily done with two DOS utilities in the UNIXFORUM – Unix2Dos
and Dos2Unix which do this exact procedure both ways.
Greg Pyros