[cad-linux] Re: iges import

i tried to pull up the page but it was not found on
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--- Maurizio Ferrari <mferrari@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> phrostie wrote:
> > 
> > awhile back some one on the list had posted a
> comment about Varicad's iges
> > import being only 2D.  i was wondering and tested
> a few others.
> > 
> > i had a geodesic sphere that i had modeled in
> Catia and exported to iges.
> > i was using it as a test case and it also comes up
> in 2D in not only Varicad
> > but Rhino3D(Wine) also.  i'd tested rhino before
> and can export 3D geometry
> > to iges and get a 3D model back.  the same is also
> true of the iges
> > translator for catia.  i think at least part of
> the problem is
> > incompatabliities between iges
> versions/translators.
> > 
> > just ramblings
> 
> Iges import in Realsoft3D for Linux is good.
> 
> If you want to see a picture of a Catia IGES
> project, loaded in R3D for
> Linux, and raytraced, click on
> http://www.slot.it/eng/audi.html
> 
> Regarding VariCAD, I think the problem lies in the
> modelling kernel
> limitations, as it does not support nurbs neither,
> so far, 'circles as
> circles' but rather uses 'approximations of circles
> by segments'. Just
> my thought.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Maurizio
> 
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