On Tuesday 20 January 2004 23:15, Tim Jelliffe wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have a general question regarding the creation of a model. I have been > working on creating a model of a Learjet 55, using CATIA V5. This is mainly > because I used this during my degree and am basically familiar with it. I > am also determined to have a model which is as close to the real thing as > possible. This means if the fuselage is 2m in diameter, I want the model to > have a 2m diameter fuselage as well! CATIA is awesome for this. A > screenshot is at > > http://members.optusnet.com.au/~tjelliffe/Learjet55.jpg > > The problem is that CATIA works with surfaces, as you can see in the pic, > but things like blender and ac3d seem to use nodes. This makes it hard to > convert into .ac format. I can save the file as either wrl, stp, igs, or > cgr file formats. I have tried saving it as a wrl format, and using this > directly in flightgear. The file size is around 2 Mb, and the frame rate > drops from ~20 to ~2 fps. I have also tried using the demo version of AC3D, > and saving directly into .ac format. This still gives very big files > though. > > Was wondering if anyone has ever done it this way, or if someone can > suggest a good way to convert it and still get a reasonably sized model > file out. Thanks > > > Tim J
Can CATIA export in .obj format? I export my models in .obj format and then import them into AC3D. LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
