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Is there a free means of converting LDraw models to Wavefront object (*.obj) files? Thanks! -Mike (16 years ago, 9-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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You could import the files into Blender3D and export them to .obj format. It probably won't look very pretty though. -Stefan- (16 years ago, 10-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) 3Dto3D bt Thomas Baier works pretty well as it has support for converting between LDraw DAT files to Wavefront OBJ as well as several other formats. You can get it at: h(URL) (16 years ago, 10-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I was hoping not to have to install another pig application package just to do a conversion. Also, are the materials imported properly? Ideally they would be converted to textures since they are more common. -Mike (16 years ago, 10-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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The materials are imported properly into Blender, but whether they would be exported as .obj is a guess on my part. Materials are better in this case, not textures. As for Blender being a "pig" program, it's a 9MB download that is completely free, (...) (16 years ago, 10-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Textures are more widely supported in programs where users actually interact/play with 3D models, though. So you are limited basically to rendering still images or animations. Stefan Garcia wrote: (...) animations, however. This is what I want (...) (16 years ago, 11-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) there are no error messages. here's the command line I'm using: 3dto3d minifig.mpd /if9 /of19 /dminifig.obj /ov /ip"J:\ProgsWin\LDraw\parts" /ip"J:\ProgsWin\LDraw\p" I'm assuming it has something to do with it not finding the parts/primitives. (...) (16 years ago, 11-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Sorry about that, the program may only work with the geometry so all the parts/primitves would probably need to be inlined. It also may need to have a DAT extention rather than MPD. (16 years ago, 11-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's what I suspected. Do you know how to meake all the parts/primitives inline? -Mike (16 years ago, 12-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Michael Heidemann's Inliner should do the job fine! (URL) Philo (16 years ago, 12-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) the program. Travis informed me that LDview can also convert to 3DS and OBJ, so I'll try that. -Mike (16 years ago, 13-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Just to clarify, the above isn't quite accurate (on two points). First of all, LDView 4.0.1 (the latest release) doesn't support this at all. Secondly, LDView 4.1 (which is forthcoming, but hasn't had even a beta release yet) will have support (...) (16 years ago, 13-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yep. I created a minifig and imported the 3DS file into MeshLab. The improper BFC is very apparent. (You can see how part authors simply created one half of a part and then mirrored the primitives to create the other half.) -Mike (16 years ago, 14-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Try: (URL) (16 years ago, 26-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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