Exporting to 3DS
Exporting to 3DS
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Does anyone have any experiance with exporting models to the 3DS file format? There are a couple of plug-ins i've seen but don't know much about them.
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RE: Exporting to 3DS
Matt
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
sw.fcsuper.com
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
RE: Exporting to 3DS
I'll have to check with the guys in graphics. I don't think they are using 3DS, but rather it is a file format they are used to importing. I sent them a list of the "Save-As" file formats, and none looked familier to them. That's why I was interested in the plug-ins.
RE: Exporting to 3DS
Matt
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
sw.fcsuper.com
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
RE: Exporting to 3DS
For now, send them all of your file types and have them try each one.
Chris
SolidWorks 07 4.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 04-21-07)
RE: Exporting to 3DS
The following from solidworks to 3d studio
iges is painfully slow
parasolid is not supported
RE: Exporting to 3DS
The following worked for us:
Save SWX file as ACIS (.SAT)
Import ACIS body into ACAD
Save ACAD file as DWG
Import DWG into 3DS
Don't know if it is the best way, but it had good results.
RE: Exporting to 3DS
Please note sueflow's comment above, "I don't think they are using 3DS..."
Matt
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
sw.fcsuper.com
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
RE: Exporting to 3DS
Hello suelflow,
Here are some fairly important questions so that we can understand the problem:
Why are they using 3DS? What software are they importing to? I know that this is what they are "used" to importing, but maybe it is not the best way.
cheers,
RE: Exporting to 3DS
The file formats they use are mainly OBJ AND 3DS because they work the best.
RE: Exporting to 3DS
RE: Exporting to 3DS
http://www.designer-info.com/Writing/carrara_4.htm
" Carrara Pro supports the import of 3D models in Lightwave LWO and trueSpace COB formats, CAD/ CAM designs in VRML, OIV, STL, IGES, STEP, VDAFS, SAT and OpenNURBS formats as well as animations in the increasingly popular BVH and FBX formats."
Have you tried VRML and SAT?