What Daniel said is quite correct -- all of the converters are separate tools, external to MGED. BRL-CAD is a suite of more than 400 such tools, and only some (probably about 10%) of that functionality is provided through MGED. To add to the confusion, the Windows port of BRL-CAD is still incomplete in that only about half of our tools are ported to that environment. We're working on having a fully unified cross-platform environment, but it's a very large code and creating that environment is a lot of work. :)
The FAIL message you see occurs because you only exported a primitive. The converters normally work at or above the region level of combination objects. Since you told it to convert a single primitive, it couldn't traverse the subtree so it reported that failure but still wrote out the primitive. An obscure message that could certainly be improved/clarified, but benign and can be ignored in this instance. Cheers! Sean On Dec 4, 2009, at 8:25 AM, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > Many thanks Daniel. I seem to be able to call it and execute it > from the > command line. So that's solved. > > Not producing much useful output though as it comes up with: > "db_walk_subtree<> FAIL on '/object.s', 30 triangles written - > 'object.s' being the primitive > > Laszlo > > Daniel Roßberg wrote: >> I haven't installed this version of BRL-CAD but I think the >> converters >> are separate tools. Try to open a command line (in BRL-CAD's bin >> directory) and type there the name of the converter. Calling such a >> program without parameters should return a string with usage >> information. >> >> Daniel >> >> >> 2009/12/3 solidprimitives <[email protected]>: >> >>> I have created some simple primitives (pyramid, cone, etc.) that >>> I would like >>> to export into ascii or dfx so that I could read these geometries >>> into >>> IDRISI GIS. None of the converters appear to work in MGED in my >>> 7.14.8 >>> version of BRL-CAD run on Windows XP SP3. I installed this >>> version as per >>> supplied in the compiled binaries. The converters are in the bin >>> folder. >>> Could anybody help please? >>> >>> [If anybody wondered, the purpose of these geometries is to >>> compare the >>> distribution of clear skye solar radiation received by different >>> 'sides' of >>> these objects at different latitudes in Europe, as part of a >>> climate-biodiversity distribution study.] >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> >>> L. :working: >>> -- >>> View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Windows- >>> v.-7.14.8-geometry-converters-do-not-work-tp26625046p26625046.html >>> Sent from the brlcad-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ---------- >>> Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, >>> a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. >>> Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev >>> _______________________________________________ >>> BRL-CAD Users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-users >>> >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --------- >> Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, >> a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. >> Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> BRL-CAD Users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-users >> >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- > Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, > a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. > Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > BRL-CAD Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-users
