Hmmm...I'm sorry I wan't too clear in my earlier message;
Chris, If you need DX-Inventor you should already have it
in the DXtoVRML exporter that Chris Kline wrote at the CTC
about six years ago. VRML 1.0 <= Inventor 2.1:
just change the filename extension from .wrl to .iv and
change the first line of the file from 
#VRML V1.0 ascii to #Inventor V2.0 ascii
and don't use the URL field in the exporter cause Inventor
doesn't have those.
The VRML 2.0 exporter that was built into the last commercial
relears of DX writes VRML 2.0 files which require more work
to convert to Inventor.

-ballard

> 
> Randall Hopper:
>  |Chris Pelkie:
>  | |Cool!
>  | |
>  | |So, do you have a DX-Inventor, Inventor-DX converter? (I actually
>  | |need the former to export DX objects to Open Inventor for our
>  | |VRScape-based CAVE. If there is a cost, let me know.)
>  |
>  |Thanks.  No, not Inventor.  But it does handle Performer.  It's an exporter
>  |built on OpenSceneGraph (www.openscenegraph.org), which has importers for
> 
> Sorry Chris, I mispoke.  The converter will handle Inventor, via OSG's
> Performer loader.  I tested that by loading and displaying a few Inventor
> models with OSG a few minutes ago.  In fact, via the Performer loader, OSG
> reportedly will be able to handle all of these Performer-supported file
> types/extensions:
> 
>      3ds arcinfo bin bpoly bw byu closest csb ct dem doublerot doublescale
>      doubletrans dted dwb dxf evt flt gds gfo im irtp iv20 iv lodfix lsa
>      lsb medit m nff obj pegg pfb pfs phd poly post proc projtex pts rot
>      scale sgf sgo so spf spherepatch3 spherepatch sphere sponge star stla
>      stlb substclip sv trans tri unc vct
> 
> Just specify -e pfb on the osgconv command-line to force use of the pfb
> loader instead of the default (by-extension) loader.
> 
> Randall
> 
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