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| Posted by jgriessen at Apr 29, 2010, 5:23:46 PM |
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importing models from CAD I am making cabinet products and want to create SH3D furniture models without extra steps from my manufacturing CAD models. I've looked into using CAD based on Open Cascade libraries such as Freecad and python-occ to do my manufacturing output and serve as reusable models for variations on products. Talking with developers and users of CAD, they say .obj format is a mesh format -- not good for CAD. How do you use .obj format to get parameterized windows for instance? I saw a special code name for glass embedded in a .obj file. Is that the extent of special changes to .obj format? Is there more added to the .obj text file that helps you stretch a window, shelf, counter, etc? Is there a tutorial for window/door creation? The models I have looked at for cabinets, (not parameterized -- not stretchable) have non-closed-solid problems such that they cannot be operated on with booleans to chop off parts, etc. inside Blender 3D. Is there a way to reuse such models with Blender? Other 3D editors? What do you usually use to create furniture models? Are any of the usual ones in BREP form good for CAD? What is used to make all those .3ds models listed at http://archive3d.net/ ? thanks, John |
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