<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi,</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I have converted as much as possible from the CAD files into BRLCAD files.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Propably I have forgotten to tell Michael Shiloh where the converted files are.</div><div>(As of I had eMail contact to him)</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Also I am not much familar with the BRL CAD and I also could not compare</div><div>the files to their orginal versions.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Where could I put the tgz file that contains all the others (~ 16 MB) ?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The file also contains a script. (How I have converted the igs files)</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Lothar</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div>Am 24.09.2008 um 16:09 schrieb Claus Christmann:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Please see inline and below...<br><br>On Wednesday 24 September 2008 08:59:12 am Breakable wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Anybody got any success for editing CAD files for the phone case?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Basically I am trying to get them open in brlcad (which seems to be the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">best free CAD software ever),<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">without any success yet.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I had some success in VariCad demo (proprietary) where parts of the design<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">are imported using STEP format, but it does not seem good enough, as I see<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">about 50% of the shapes usually.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">IGES on the other hand seems like a total dissaster.<br></blockquote>The IGES files I created seemed to work in Pro/E and CATIA V5. Can you figure <br>out if the files are corrupted or if it is a non-working import filter in <br>brlcad that does not work?<br>Have you tried opening a single file and not the complete assembly?<br><br><blockquote type="cite">The only solution I currently see is buying or pirating the Pro/ENGINEER to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">edit or convert them to brlcad .g format using the Pro/E to BRLCAD<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">converter plugin for Pro/ENGINEER from the brlcad suite. Buying or pirating<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">for this task is not the option I like.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Anybody that has a Pro/ENGINEER license can assist with that?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">There is a nice description how to do it in<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://brlcad.org/w/images/6/66/Converting_Geometry.pdf">http://brlcad.org/w/images/6/66/Converting_Geometry.pdf</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">in section 4.9 page 27 of pdf.<br></blockquote>I have access to a Pro/E licencense and can look into that. However, it won't <br>happen till the weekend...<br><br><blockquote type="cite">After this is done properly, maybe the BRLCAD to DXF converter can be used<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">improve accessibility of design files for those that have AutoCad.<br></blockquote>DXF is essentially a 2D format. Since there is no conversion from 3D to 2D <br>that does not lose information, a "usefull" conversion heavily depends on the <br>need of the user of those 2D DXF files. <br><br>IF the list could agree on a limited number of planes/slices through the 3D <br>model I might be willing to put the time into creating them.<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">If this issue wont be resolved I don't believe a community effort to build<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">on the openness<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">of the device will ever succeed.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Regards,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ignas<br></blockquote><br>As said above, I will look into this brlcad over the weekend and look into the <br>conversion of the files into the appropriate format. However, I can't promise <br>anything... (BTW, I have never heard of brlcad, but I also hardly use <br>anything else than CATIA these days...)<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Claus<br><br>-- <br>Claus Christmann<br>Graduate Research Assistant<br><br>Georgia Institute of Technology<br>270 Ferst Drive<br>Atlanta, GA 30332-0150, USA<br><br><a href="http://uav.ae.gatech.edu">http://uav.ae.gatech.edu</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Openmoko community mailing list<br>community@lists.openmoko.org<br>http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community<br><br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; 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