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- From: slevy@noneuclid.geom.umn.edu (Stuart Levy)
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- Subject: Explorer and Inventor file formats?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.042614.11719@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 04:26:14 GMT
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- Is documentation available for the Explorer and Inventor file formats?
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- In particular, I'm hoping to find out about Explorer's Pyramid and
- Inventor's geometric data formats, in enough detail to make it possible
- to produce code to read and write reasonable subsets of them. I've hunted
- through our copies of Explorer 1.0 and Inventor (EOE) 1.0 to no avail.
- It's easy to generate sample data files and guess, but it'd be nice to
- look at something definitive if possible.
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- Maybe a couple of meta-questions are appropriate: How stable are these
- file formats likely to be in future products? [Clearly no promises expected.]
- Are they defined primarily by the source code to their library routines
- (and so not a suitable subject for documentation)?
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- Stuart Levy
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