[Radiance-general] RE: Translating a grid into an acad file

[Jack de Valpine]

Well, Bob's my Uncle, that would be a lot easier wouldn't it!

Randolph Fritz wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 01:51:46PM -0400, Jack de Valpine wrote:
>   
>> Given a well formated data file such as Martin originally posted, one 
>> could write an autolisp routine to read in the data file and do 
>> something with it in Autocad. This could be simple such as calling the 
>> "3dmesh" command and feeding it points as part of a script. 
>>     
>
> You don't need AutoLISP; a bit of reformatting will do.  Just create a
> text file that looks like this:
>
> 3dmesh
> <m> <n>
> <vertex 1,1>
> <vertex 1,2>
> ...
> <vertex 1,n>
> <vertex 2,1>
> <vertex 2,2>
> ...
> ...
> ...
> <vertex m,n>
>
> Name the file mesh.scr, use the "script" command to read it in, and
> Bob's your uncle.
>
> Of course, this assumes you have a copy of AutoCAD.  If you don't, I
> think it would be fairly simple to hack sdxf.py to generate the
> appropriate DXF.
>
> Randolph
>
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