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Re: Any way to reduce polygons?
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lugnet.cad
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Thu, 16 Mar 2000 19:44:34 GMT
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<Cough!> Okay, time to crank my brain I guess.
I'm going to be working with a .dxf file. If anyone has more advice
specific to those, then I'd really appreciate it.
Steve, thanks for the help. I'm going to give this a go, but when ever it
comes down to hacking files like this, I tend to end up huddled in a corner.
Twitching. 8)
Ben
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Ben Vaughan
buster@marsbase.com
http://www.marsbase.com
"Steve Bliss" <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:bp32dsc5bo9jlu2bef7s8t57h1m5b690la@4ax.com...
> In lugnet.cad, Ben Vaughan wrote:
>
> > When converting models to dxf format with dat2dxf, you end up with a
> > tremendous number of polygons in the converted model. This means that • any
> > program used to view the file has *tons* of work to do. Anyone know of • way
> > to simplify dat files down to simple solid forms? Backface culling only
> > does so much when you've got 300,000 polygons (as was the case with my
> > Kodiak when I tried this).
>
> I'm assuming you are generating a single, flattened stream of input,
> instead of defining subobjects which correspond to the subfiles in a
> model. If I'm wrong about that, ignore the rest of this message.
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> One thing to do is to intercept any references to stud*.dat files, and
> replace them with the equivalent cylindrical shape. These files
> typically have hundreds of references in even medium-sized models.
>
> See <http://www.ldraw.org/memorial/archive/FAQ/Primitives_Reference> for
> the definitions of most primitives. There are a number of simple
> geometric primitives that could be replaced a single object.
>
> Steve
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