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Translate between 3D file formats with

InterChange


With InterChange, it's easy to share models between 3D programs.

Model in one program, animate in another

Preserves geometry, surface information, hierarchy, and rotational centers and more.

Easily convert a single file at a time, or batch-convert many files automatically.

"Smart select" automatically finds all 3D files in a directory.


Only InterChange has...

More than 40 popular 3D file formats

Fast, accurate conversions

More conversion options

Easy batch conversion

Comprehensive documentation

Ideal features for multimedia, VRML and game development



Converts to and from more than forty of the most popular 3D file formats:

                               In      Out     Surf    Obj
3D Studio 3DS and MLI           X       X       X       X
Alias polysets                  X       X       X       X
Alias StyleGuide                        X       X       X
AutoCAD DXF                     X       X               X
BRender                         X       X       X       X
CAD-3D                          X               X       X
CADKey CADL                     X       X
GDS "things"                    X       X       X       X
Haines NFF                      X       X       X       X
Imagine                         X       X       X       X
Inventor                        X       X       X
LightWave objects and scenes    X       X       X       X
Movie BYU                       X       X               X
POV-Ray 2.0                             X       X       X
Prisms                          X       X       X
Pro/Engineer render "slp"       X       X       X
Raw and .tpoly                  X       X
Rend386 PLG                     X       X       X
Renderman RIB                           X
RenderMorphics                  X       X       X       X
RenderWare                              X       X       X
Sculpt                          X       X       X
Sense8 NFF                      X       X       X       X
Stereolithography               X       X
Swivel                          X               X       X
Symbolics                       X       X               X
trueSpace                       X       X       X       X
Vertigo                         X       X       X       X
Vista Pro DEM                   X
VRML                                    X       X       X
Wavefront objects, materials    X       X       X       X

where In means InterChange imports, Out means it exports, Surf means surface attributes, and Obj means sub-objects are preserved.

InterChange is based on proven technology.

Interchange requires Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows 95 or Windows NT, with at least eight extra megabytes of memory recommended. Retail price $495.

Coming soon for SGI IRIX.


Syndesis 3D-ROMs

Hundreds of models on CDROM for less than $100

The Syndesis 3D-ROMs are inexpensive collections of 3D models on CDROM. We make the 3D-ROMs to demonstrate the powerful translation abilities of InterChange.

Each 3D model has been pre-translated by InterChange to five popular 3D file formats: AutoCAD DXF, 3D Studio, LightWave Imagine and Wavefront. All objects are unlocked and ready-to-load, and can be used in almost every 3D program.

Each 3D-ROM includes a complete printed manual with descriptions of each object, including cross-referenced and indexed keywords.

Each 3D-ROM is $99.95.

Syndesis 3D-ROM Volume I contains more than 500 3D models and 200 tileable textures.

Click here to see thumbnail renderings of all the objects and tileable bitmap textures on Volume I.

Here are several models in VRML format from Volume I:

Chair (5K)

Church (175K)

Clambot (162K)

Desk (78K)

Desk lamp (12K)

Fan

Fighter plane (41K)

Fern (111K)

Broadleaf plant (32K)

Jeep (304K)

Lifeguard chair (149K)

Saxophone (110K)

Syndesis 3D-ROM Volume II contains more than 200 different 3D models.

Click here to see thumbnail renderings of all the objects on Volume II.


Find out how to get a free 3D-ROM...

The 3D models on the Syndesis 3D-ROMs have been contributed by artists like you. You can earn a FREE Syndesis 3D-ROM by sending us one or more 3D models of your own creation that we can distribute on the next edition of the 3D-ROM. If we use your model, you get a copy of that 3D-ROM absolutely free - there's not even a shipping and handling charge.

If you'd like to get a free Syndesis 3D-ROM in this way, just call, fax or e-mail and ask for a "3D-ROM Submission Form". Please include your postal (paper) address, and describe which 3D programs you own and use.

You can also request literature about InterChange, or a printed catalog of the models on the Syndesis 3D-ROMs, by contacting us in this way.


Copyright © 1995 Syndesis Corporation.
InterChange is a trademark of Syndesis Corporation.
Syndesis Corporation
Syndesis Corporation
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Jefferson, WI 53549
Phone: 414.674.5200
Fax: 414.674.6363
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