You know Autodesk has a large(ish) development office in Portland, right? -----Original Message----- From: cad-linux-dev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Eric Wilhelm Sent: Tue 5/17/2005 12:13 AM To: cad-linux-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Subject: [cad-linux-dev] uber-converter Work continues on the uber-converter. This coming month will probably see a release of sorts, with support for most-things dxf and likely svg. The dxf reader currently supports most of the 2D entities and the 3D forms of them. The current speed bump (or cliff) is the linetypes. Looking at some of the other implementations, its clear that I have a ways to go before these make a lot of sense (think "gas line" linetype and you'll see that these get really tangled into text styles, fonts, etc.) I've moved to Portland, OR and started an independent software consultant business, so writing the rhizopod components of the uber-converter is currently my full-time job. Does this mean the uber-converter is commercial? Of course. Does my business plan involve proprietary software in any way? Of course not. I'm not doing dual-licensing, secret add-ons, or any of that silly stuff. I'll provide paid support, but the development is 100% open-source. Currently, I'm working on some code for an automagic build system, which should make it easier for me to turn out tarballs for my 53 perl modules. In the next few weeks, I should have a spear in the head of that demon and nightly builds on the website to show for it. Looking at the requests for new import/export formats in brlcad. There's a lot of potential to leverage the hub concept here. Most of these are just triangles. While we're probably not talking pure rhizopod, hub-is-a-node tells us that there's potential to cover a lot of ground fairly quickly. The upcoming progression of the dxf connector likely lays the groundwork for most of this, and we might even be able to squeeze the .blend format in there somewhere. If anyone's interested, drop me a note, get on #cadfs, etc. --Eric -- We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals. -- Quarry worker's creed --------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com ---------------------------------------------