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- From: chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (chris williams)
- Subject: Re: Need CATIA translators
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.042428.19092@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Keywords: catia alias wavefront translator
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:24:28 GMT
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- >> I'm looking, somewhat desperately, for a CATIA to ALIAS,
- >> WAVEFRONT, DXF, IGES, or just about anything else translator.
- >> The basis for this need is that as part of a large scale
- >> visualization attempt, I would like to bring a CATIA generated model
- >> into either ALIAS or WAVEFRONT for rendering and fly-through
- >> animation. The model itself is much to large and complicated to
- >> consider generation from scratch in WAVEFRONT or ALIAS. I am
- >> aware of several, outrageously priced, commercial translators,
- >> but at $10,000 each these are not really options we can
- >> afford to consider. So if anyone has any information on
- >> reasonably priced or public domain CATIA translators I would
- >> love to hear the information. Even some idea as to the
- >> CATIA EXPORT FILE format would be helpful since the makers
- >> of CATIA are conspiratorially tight-lipped with any sort of
- >> file format information.
-
- Sorry, but I don't have anything to offer but my own experience
- converting CATIA files to TDI. We had to send a 9-track tape to France
- in order to do a translation, as the only translator available had to
- run on a mainframe and they had no plans to port it over to a
- workstation. Sorry.
-
- Chris Williams
- chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu
-