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Re: DAT to DXF again
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:56:27 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Erik Olson writes:
> Last night, frustrated by other bugs in BrickDraw3D, I looked at DXF
> translation. First, I found a reference to many 3D formats, which could be
> useful to many:
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> http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/geomformats/
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> I wrote some Perl scripts which create DXF models which I import to
> Vectorworks. I think I have just found my interface of choice. (:
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> DXF is actually pretty easy if you just want to output some 3DFACE and LINE
> primitives.
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> Looking at the work I did on a LDRAW-3DMF translator in March 99, it would
> be possible to put a DXF back-end on that. This 3DMF translator made library
> objects and forward references within one file, which will take some more
> research to do in DXF. Does anybody know how DXF can reuse objects? The DXF
> reference is actually pretty bad unless you already know the key concepts.
Would that be done in the BLOCK - ENDBLK section? It's been eeeeons
since I did any DXF output, but that seems to ring a bell. And this
link seems to back me up.
http://www.floodmaps.fema.gov/listserv/rp_aug02.htm#one
Good luck,
Don
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