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From: steven@hkg.hkg.ingr.com (Steven Davis)
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Subject: LW Plugins
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I`ve not taken a close look at the Lightave SDK stuff yet, but wondered if
someone in the know could answer this question.
I`m planning on writing a Microstation/ModelView design file reader as a
plug-in for Lightwave. The Microstation design file has actual spline-based
elements, and the problem in the past was converting these to facets during
a file conversion.
Is it possible for a Plug-In to control both LightWave & Modeller at the
same time? I think this plugin would have to use Modeller to create faceted
models from Microstation spline-based elements, and then pass them through
to Layout. At the same time, I want to retrieve Texture information and
automatically set these objects to match.
John Foust, any thoughts? Allen, Stuart?
It will be definately feasable for me to develop this once I have Lightwave
for Windows NT, and use MSVC+ to develop the plug-in.
John, did you ever get chance to look at Microstation DGN file format? I`d
be interested in you comments of using Modeller to re-construct faceted
versions of spline-based elements, instead of writing the code to do it
yourself.
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Steve Davis Email : steven@hkg.hkg.ingr.com
Senior Software Engineer Phone : (852) 5931646 (Direct)
Intergraph Graphics Systems (852) 5931600
Hong Kong Fax : (852) 8020781
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