[Radiance-general] Arc+

[Georg Mischler]

atelier iebele abel wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> As modelling tool I use Arc+.
> Does anybody in this list knows about this software, and to be more in
> detail, does anybody knows how to read and/or translate its database
> files?
> I'm working on this import for Arc+ (for radiance as well as my own
> tools ) at this moment, it is not that easy and I would appreciate some
> help very much!

The easiest way to translate from arbitrary CAD programs
to Radiance is probably per DXF:

 http://www.schorsch.com/download/dxf2rad/

But you sound as if you want to go in the other direction as well?
If the makers of Arc+ don't provide documentation on their file
format, or an internal API, then that might get difficult.


-schorsch

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