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- From: shafei@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Nayel el-Shafei)
- Subject: Re: Need CATIA translators
- In-Reply-To: jendo@ponton.hanse.de's message of Sat, 16 Jan 93 16:54:38 MEZ
- Message-ID: <SHAFEI.93Jan28155840@montreux.ai.mit.edu>
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- Cc: shafei
- Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:58:40 GMT
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- garyh@sdsc.edu (Gary Hanyzewski) writes:
-
- > 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.
-
- Cambridge Automation offers Spartacus, a reversible-grammar parser, that
- translates between various (CAD) formats. The system is successfully
- used for Calma DAL migration to various CAD systems. Other CAD
- formats were used as origination and destination, including CATIA.
- The translator is incremental, i.e., on encountering a new command it
- asks the user to define it once (in any of 12 other formats,
- preferably the standard PDES Express).
-
- For further information contact Cambridge Automation on (617)
- 484-1209, fax (617) 484-1299.
-
- Cheers!
-
- -nayel shafei
-