[Radiance-general] Re: Radiance Geometry Export

[R Fritz (LBL)]

Greg, when I try this (after first running the Radiance files through 
xform to expand all the embedded commands) I see:
  $ rad2mgf expanded.rad | mgf2inv >x.vrml
  <stdin>: 36: Illegal argument value:
  m 50fin_mat =

My fallback was Anselmo's script, which seems to mostly work, though 
some geometry doesn't seem to have made it through.

Wish I had the resources to write a rad23dm script, oh, well...

Randolph

On 2010-06-08 14:41:10 -0700, R Fritz (LBL) said:

> Thanks, Greg--I think that will solve my problem.
> 
> On 2010-06-08 14:22:15 -0700, Greg Ward said:
> 
>> Hi Randolph,
>> You can convert it to MGF and from there to VRML (Inventor 2.0) format:
>> 	rad2mgf input files ... | mgf2inv > combined.inv
>> You can build these tools in ray/src/cv/mgflib if you haven't done so 
>> already.  Textures don't come through, sadly.
>> Best,
>> -Greg
>>> From: R Fritz (LBL) <RFritz at lbl.gov>
>>> Date: June 8, 2010 2:10:12 PM PDT
>>> I've just been handed an existing Radiance model and I'd like to 
>>> convert the geometry to some other format (DXF? OpenNURBS/Rhino? 
>>> SketchUp?) for study and perhaps editing. Are there any tools that do 
>>> that?


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Randolph Fritz • RFritz at lbl.gov
Environmental Energy Technologies Division • Lawrence Berkeley Labs