[Radiance-general] Re: Radiance Geometry Export

[R Fritz]

Thanks. For now, I'll just deal, one way or another.

Randolph

On 2010-06-10 09:37:15 -0700, Greg Ward said:

> Hi Randolph,
> 
> MGF requires that identifiers begin with a letter, and they can't 
> contain spaces.  The rad2mgf program doesn't check to make sure 
> identifiers are legal in MGF, so this is the problem.  You need to 
> rename material and modifier names that don't begin with a letter, or I 
> need to update rad2mgf to fix identifiers.
> 
> -Greg
> 
>> From: R Fritz (LBL) <RFritz at lbl.gov>
>> Date: June 10, 2010 9:06:01 AM PDT
>> 
>> 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