Please see inline and below... On Wednesday 24 September 2008 08:59:12 am Breakable wrote: > Hi, > Anybody got any success for editing CAD files for the phone case? > Basically I am trying to get them open in brlcad (which seems to be the > best free CAD software ever), > without any success yet. > I had some success in VariCad demo (proprietary) where parts of the design > are imported using STEP format, but it does not seem good enough, as I see > about 50% of the shapes usually. > IGES on the other hand seems like a total dissaster. The IGES files I created seemed to work in Pro/E and CATIA V5. Can you figure out if the files are corrupted or if it is a non-working import filter in brlcad that does not work? Have you tried opening a single file and not the complete assembly?
> The only solution I currently see is buying or pirating the Pro/ENGINEER to > edit or convert them to brlcad .g format using the Pro/E to BRLCAD > converter plugin for Pro/ENGINEER from the brlcad suite. Buying or pirating > for this task is not the option I like. > Anybody that has a Pro/ENGINEER license can assist with that? > There is a nice description how to do it in > http://brlcad.org/w/images/6/66/Converting_Geometry.pdf > in section 4.9 page 27 of pdf. I have access to a Pro/E licencense and can look into that. However, it won't happen till the weekend... > After this is done properly, maybe the BRLCAD to DXF converter can be used > to > improve accessibility of design files for those that have AutoCad. DXF is essentially a 2D format. Since there is no conversion from 3D to 2D that does not lose information, a "usefull" conversion heavily depends on the need of the user of those 2D DXF files. IF the list could agree on a limited number of planes/slices through the 3D model I might be willing to put the time into creating them. > If this issue wont be resolved I don't believe a community effort to build > on the openness > of the device will ever succeed. > > Regards, > Ignas As said above, I will look into this brlcad over the weekend and look into the conversion of the files into the appropriate format. However, I can't promise anything... (BTW, I have never heard of brlcad, but I also hardly use anything else than CATIA these days...) Regards, Claus -- Claus Christmann Graduate Research Assistant Georgia Institute of Technology 270 Ferst Drive Atlanta, GA 30332-0150, USA http://uav.ae.gatech.edu _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community