Hi,
I have converted as much as possible from the CAD files into BRLCAD
files.
Propably I have forgotten to tell Michael Shiloh where the converted
files are.
(As of I had eMail contact to him)
Also I am not much familar with the BRL CAD and I also could not compare
the files to their orginal versions.
Where could I put the tgz file that contains all the others (~ 16 MB) ?
The file also contains a script. (How I have converted the igs files)
Regards,
Lothar
Am 24.09.2008 um 16:09 schrieb Claus Christmann:
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
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Claus Christmann
Graduate Research Assistant
Georgia Institute of Technology
270 Ferst Drive
Atlanta, GA 30332-0150, USA
http://uav.ae.gatech.edu
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