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- From: garyh@sdsc.edu (Gary Hanyzewski)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.animation,alt.cad,comp.graphics.visualization,sci.engr.mech
- Subject: Re: Need CATIA translators
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 19:34:23 GMT
- Organization: San Diego Supercomputer Center @ UCSD
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- References: <1993Jan27.083541.18675@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
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- In article 18675@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg, escmar@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (~{BmOHIz~}) writes:
- chris williams (chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu) wrote:
- : >> 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
-
- Is this the CATIA from MSC/Nastran? I'm interested in this
- discussion because I also have a project that is using CATIA.
-
- The original question dealt with CATIA the high-end CAD
- package produced by Dassault, a french company.
-
- Gary H.
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