*** Spam *** Re: [Radiance-general] Acad2004 Exporters?

[Jack de Valpine]

Hi Chris,

Well, I think that the ideal solution is in fact not to introduce 
another package (whether Form Z or Polytrans). However, that being said 
I think that if another package needs to be introduced then cost is a 
big big issue. Polytrans with the CadPak is ~$540 I think. As Form Z is 
a full blown cad/modeling application, I expect it costs ~$2000?

I guess if I was using Autocad and wanted/needed to introduce another 
package I might look at Rhino which does stuff that Autocad is not very 
good at.

-Jack

Chris Jessee wrote:
> You made a intermediary software such as FormZ.
>
> DWG > FormZ > OBJ>RAD
>
> I would be happy to convert your dwg to obj so you can evaluate the 
> process.
>
> Take care,
>
> Chris Jessee
> chris.jessee at kingmill.com
>
>
>
>
> On Sep 14, 2006, at 9:58 AM, Mark de la Fuente wrote:
>
>> How do you get to obj format from cad.  And then once you have a 
>> model in obj, do you need a certain program to properly export to 
>> radiance?  Or is obj2rad just going to translate everything in the file?
>>
>> We are looking at Torad.  It still works under 2004.  Looks like 
>> there are a couple of bugs that needed fixing including allowing the 
>> interface to run.
>>
>> Mark
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