#Generic 3D -> 3DStudio
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It's okay to beat a dead horse, but you're betting the wrong one. <g>
Really, its a million times easier for the cad translator to make the
faces, than for a program to look at arbitrary lines and guess at what the
faces would be. You should be beating up on the Datacad folks. The
Generic Cad already does this.
-GB-
Maybe i should look into Generic cadd for my architectural models!
Thanks again!
Steve
Would you do me a favor? Would you, Scottv, and Peter (?) please get
together and sing the same song regarding Generic 3D DXF output? The
following is a quote from a previous message from Scottv (sorry Scott!):
"When we start to get into 3D entities then things get trickier. DXF has a
3D FACE entity, BUT it is limited to 3 or 4 sides at the most. So when we
have a 3 or 4 sided Polygon we can convert it into a 3D FACE, but when we
have a >4 sided polygon we have to convert to something else.
I believe we chose lines because the main consideration was getting
things into ACAD. And Polylines are a versitile entity which can be
manipulated in a number of ways."
Is there a way to bring a pentagon from G3D into 3DS as a usable 3d object?
Thanx, LAM
Turns out I was wrong. ~I asked the wrong person at Generic when he was
visiting, next time I'll ask Scott. Oh well, I should have checked it
myself.
-GB-