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Re: DAT to DXF again
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Date: 
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:
> 
> http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/geomformats/
> 
> I wrote some Perl scripts which create DXF models which I import to
> Vectorworks. I think I have just found my interface of choice. (:
> 
> DXF is actually pretty easy if you just want to output some 3DFACE and LINE
> primitives.
> 
> 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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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: (URL) wrote some Perl scripts which create DXF models which I import to Vectorworks. I (...) (24 years ago, 2-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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