From: Rod McCormick (rmccormick@verizon.net)
Date: Sun Aug 24 2003 - 20:57:23 EEST
Jonathon,
The issue was discussed on the formZ forum. Here is the discussion:
http://www.formz.com/web_site_2000/content_pages/forum01/discus/messages/16/
4147.html?
Or go to http://www.formz.com/forum/general_discussion.html and do a keyword
search on "AutoCAD Solids"
Rod
on 8/24/03 10:31 AM, Jonathan Chertok at chertok22@hotmail.com wrote:
> List,
>
> Can anyone share their knowledge with translation issues from Autocad (2000)
> to Rhino and Form Z? I think I will be doing some wireframe and surface
> armatures in Autocad and then slicing up some solids generated in Rhino or
> Form Z with this armature.
>
> I understand that Rhino does not recognize Autocad Solids and that there is
> a translation that would need to be done in order to get this solid into
> Rhino. Does anyone have a convenient workaround for this?Or maybe I will
> simply form up the solid in Rhino and slice it there. I'll probably be going
> back and forth quite a bit and would be happy to have some information about
> the process.
>
> Anything similar with Form Z?
>
> I am sure that I am bumping up into this "File Type Information versus
> Software Capabilities Issue" and wonder if anyone has found a good source
> for a "global perspective" on what types of information the various file
> types can translate and which softwares deal with what type of information.
>
> Is there a shareware file translation software that I should be using?
> Anyone using the STEP tools translator?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jonathan
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