Re: CAD conversion and editing

2008-09-25 Thread Michael Shiloh
Lothar Behrens wrote:
 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)
 


Hi Lothar,

Yes, tell me where the files are, and we'll gladly host them on 
downloads.openmoko.org.

Michael

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Re: CAD conversion and editing

2008-09-25 Thread Lothar Behrens

Hi Michael,

as Claus has posted, the files are currently located here: 
http://controls.ae.gatech.edu/claus/web/openmoko.html

Lothar

Am 25.09.2008 um 19:44 schrieb Michael Shiloh:


Lothar Behrens wrote:

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)




Hi Lothar,

Yes, tell me where the files are, and we'll gladly host them on
downloads.openmoko.org.

Michael

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CAD conversion and editing

2008-09-24 Thread Breakable
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 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.
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.
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
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Re: CAD conversion and editing

2008-09-24 Thread 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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Re: CAD conversion and editing

2008-09-24 Thread Andreas Fischer
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.

Well... someone seems to have been successful nine days ago!?
http://brlcad.org/gallery/s/screenshots/iges-openmoko-conversion.png.html
Or is there something I don't get about that screenshot?

Regards,
Andreas

 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 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.
 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.
 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
 
 
 
 
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Re: CAD conversion and editing

2008-09-24 Thread Lothar Behrens

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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Graduate Research Assistant

Georgia Institute of Technology
270 Ferst Drive
Atlanta, GA 30332-0150, USA

http://uav.ae.gatech.edu

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CAD conversion and editing

2008-09-24 Thread Breakable
Great,
If there are people up to it, I hope someone will get it done sometime
(soon?).
I also got an email from someone named Christoph,
he might do it tonight.
I hope whoever is first will post to the newsgroup,
so there is no dublication of effort.
As of getting IGES files loading into BRL-CAD it would be great to get some
directions on that,
because I tried it myself, by following the manual, and did not succeed
neither in BRL-CAD nor in VariCad.
I am almost positive the files were not corrupted as there was not error.
This link proves it is possible
http://brlcad.org/gallery/s/screenshots/iges-openmoko-conversion.png.html
but the question is how?
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Re: CAD conversion and editing

2008-09-24 Thread Lothar Behrens

Hi,

I have tried another run on files that were not successfully converted.

For sample this file:

mac:brl-cad-conv lothar$ ls -l gta02-mme01_asm.igs*
-r--r--r--  1 lothar  staff  152091796 30 Jun 16:09 gta02- 
mme01_asm.igs  # Converts to
-rw-r--r--  1 lothar  staff104 24 Sep 18:55 gta02- 
mme01_asm.igs.g# this, when deleted

mac:brl-cad-conv lothar$ ./convert.sh

#!/bin/sh

for file in *.igs; do
if [ ! -e $file.g ]; then
/usr/brlcad/bin/iges-g -t -o $file.g $file  
fi
done

Can anybody else convert this file ?

Thanks

Lothar

**

BRL-CAD Release 7.10.4  Crash Report
Thu Nov 29 17:25:17 EST 2007, Compilation 2
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/brlcad/rel-7.10.4

Command: iges-g
Process: 5011
Path: /usr/brlcad/bin/iges-g
Date: Wed Sep 24 18:56:05 2008

Call stack backtrace:
#1  0x9224e900 in nanosleep ()
#2  0x92265cd0 in sleep ()
#3  0x0017e4dc in bu_backtrace (fp=0xa0398e5c) at backtrace.c:377
start = {
  tv_sec = 175365,
  tv_usec = 435849
}
end = {
  tv_sec = 175380,
  tv_usec = 436193
}
start = {
  tv_sec = 175365,
  tv_usec = 435849
}
end = {
  tv_sec = 175380,
  tv_usec = 436193
}
start = {
  tv_sec = 175365,
  tv_usec = 435849
}
end = {
  tv_sec = 175380,
  tv_usec = 436193
}
start = {
  tv_sec = 175365,
  tv_usec = 435849
}
end = {
  tv_sec = 175380,
  tv_usec = 436193
}
#4  0x0018515c in bu_crashreport (filename=0x1a9654 iges-g-5011- 
bomb.log) at crashreport.c:109

#5  0x0017f370 in bu_bomb (str=0xa0360424 \00580\006) at bomb.c:186
#6  0x008641f4 in rt_nurb_s_eval (srf=0x7783f10, u=1.046846010283,  
v=2.5684601028290004, final_value=0xb230) at nurb_eval.c:88

mesh_ptr = (fastf_t *) 0x7784210
curves = (fastf_t *) 0x2
i = -1073745360
row_size = 2
col_size = 2
c_ptr = (fastf_t *) 0x8e17b4
diff_curve = (fastf_t *) 0x7784b70
ev_pt = (fastf_t *) 0xe
k_index = -1
coords = 3
#7  0x00019418 in Assign_vu_geom (vu=0x7784930, u=1.046846010283,  
v=2.5684601028290004, srf=0x7783f10) at trimsurf.c:390
uvw = {3.4869690200662636e-76, 8.9972621536927546e-311,  
6.1918101183250712e-316}

pt_on_srf = {0, 0, 0, 0}
moved = 1
#8  0x000198d8 in Add_trim_curve (entity_no=125323632, lu=0x77848d0,  
srf=0x7783f10) at trimsurf.c:478

entity_type = 110
crv = (struct edge_g_cnurb *) 0x7784970
eu = (struct edgeuse *) 0x77848d0
new_eu = (struct edgeuse *) 0x1dc40
x = 5.0448064652679996
y = 1.1001
z = 0
ncoords = 125323792
i = 121920
#9  0x00019f48 in Make_trim_loop (entity_no=1064, orientation=1,  
srf=0x7783f10, fu=0x77849f4) at trimsurf.c:635

curve_count = 4
curve_list = (int *) 0x77849f0
lu = (struct loopuse *) 0x77848d0
new_eu = (struct edgeuse *) 0x10a0
entity_type = 102
ncoords = 1064
x = 1.3527723018393412e-312
y = 8.4880254361177474e-314
z = -1.9972382932903736
u = -1.3347076269835431e+88
v = 0
i = 1
#10 0x0001a584 in Make_loop (entity_no=121920, orientation=1,  
on_surf_de=2115, srf=0x7783f10, fu=0x7784780) at trimsurf.c:828

lu = (struct loopuse *) 0xe
entity_type = 142
surf_de = 2115
param_curve_de = 2129
model_curve_de = 2119
i = 0
#11 0x0001b29c in trim_surf (entityno=125316160, s=0x776c380) at  
trimsurf.c:1080

m = (struct model *) 0x5501d50
srf = (struct face_g_snurb *) 0x7783f10
fu = (struct faceuse *) 0x7784780
lu = (struct loopuse *) 0x5501d50
kill_lu = (struct loopuse *) 0x7782c40
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i = 1066
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Re: CAD conversion and editing

2008-09-24 Thread Claus Christmann
Please see inline and below:

On Wednesday 24 September 2008 10:58:59 am Lothar Behrens wrote:
 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) ?

If you want, I can host the files at webspace of mine, next to the IGES and 
STEP files. If that sounds like an option, simply email me the files. (Once 
Michael Shiloh gets in contact with you the files can then be transfered to 
downloads.openmoko.org/CAD as well)



 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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  Georgia Institute of Technology
  270 Ferst Drive
  Atlanta, GA 30332-0150, USA
 
  http://uav.ae.gatech.edu
 
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The files would then be available via 
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Re: CAD conversion and editing

2008-09-24 Thread Claus Christmann
Please see inline and below:

On Wednesday 24 September 2008 10:09:10 am Claus Christmann wrote:
 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...

Hurray to procrastination...
Well, I downloaded brlcad and briefly looked into that conversion thing.
However, I could not figure out how to do it (again, I neither am a a regular 
Pro/E user nor have I ever heard of brlcad before).


  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

It seems that I can't  (for the lag of a better word) load the brlcad 
converter in Pro/E. The rather vague PDF calls for a file labeled *protk.dat* 
that shoul reside inside a /pro_engineer/ directory in the brlcad branch. I 
neither could find the file nor the directory. (I only tried the Windows 
binary download of brlcad since I only have a Windows Pro/E license.)

So if anybody has a source to a step-by-step instruction on how to do the 
export from Pro/E, please let me know. Otherwise I will drop this conversion 
(as Andreas pointed out the IGES conversion seems to work after all).

Regards,

Claus

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Re: CAD conversion and editing

2008-09-24 Thread Claus Christmann
On Wednesday 24 September 2008 02:38:44 pm Claus Christmann wrote:
 Please see inline and below:

 On Wednesday 24 September 2008 10:58:59 am Lothar Behrens wrote:
  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) ?

 If you want, I can host the files at webspace of mine, next to the IGES and
 STEP files. If that sounds like an option, simply email me the files. (Once
 Michael Shiloh gets in contact with you the files can then be transfered to
 downloads.openmoko.org/CAD as well)

  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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   Graduate Research Assistant
  
   Georgia Institute of Technology
   270 Ferst Drive
   Atlanta, GA 30332-0150, USA
  
   http://uav.ae.gatech.edu
  
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 The files would then be available via
 http://controls.ae.gatech.edu/claus/web/openmoko.html

Lothar's files are availalbe via 
http://controls.ae.gatech.edu/claus/web/openmoko.html 

Thank you, Lothar, for doing the conversion. Let's hope that someone can 
figure out the problem with the last resiting files.

Regards,

Claus

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Graduate Research Assistant

Georgia Institute of Technology
270 Ferst Drive
Atlanta, GA 30332-0150, USA

http://uav.ae.gatech.edu

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CAD conversion and editing

2008-09-24 Thread Breakable

 It seems that I can't  (for the lag of a better word) load the brlcad 
 converter in Pro/E. The rather vague PDF calls for a file labeled *protk.dat* 
 that shoul reside inside a /pro_engineer/ directory in the brlcad branch. I 
 neither could find the file nor the directory. (I only tried the Windows 
 binary download of brlcad since I only have a Windows Pro/E license.)
 
 So if anybody has a source to a step-by-step instruction on how to do the 
 export from Pro/E, please let me know. Otherwise I will drop this conversion 
 (as Andreas pointed out the IGES conversion seems to work after all).
 
 Regards,
 
 Claus
Claus,
Please take a look maybe this will help:
http://inversionconsulting.blogspot.com/2008/05/protk-simplify-protkdat-with-env-vars.html
Even with IGES working (not for me yet), it might worth a try. Maybe a better 
quality can be achieved?

PS:I hope my mail application wont break the thread this time. I was getting it 
working for an hour now.
Regards,
Ignas



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CAD conversion and editing

2008-09-24 Thread Breakable

 Lothar's files are availalbe via 
 http://controls.ae.gatech.edu/claus/web/openmoko.html 
 
 Thank you, Lothar, for doing the conversion. Let's hope that someone can 
 figure out the problem with the last resiting files.
 
 Regards,
 
 Claus
 
 -- 
 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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Assuming this is fixed, tnx for the effort!


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