[Radiance-general] Re: Preparing an open DXF file for import

[Chris Yates]

Hi Guys

Has anybody tried microstation?

I downloaded V8 XM last year. After thirty days it reverts to 15 minute
sessions but apart from that is still FULLY FUNCTIONAL!

The import / export is infinitely better than anything Autodesk: IGES,
Parasolid, STL, STEP, ACIS, Sketchup, Collada, CGM and DWG/ DXF!

It's a bit of a pain to get used to after Autocad but at least you can get
it talking to blender and sketchup.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: radiance-general-bounces at radiance-online.org
[mailto:radiance-general-bounces at radiance-online.org] On Behalf Of Thomas
Bleicher
Sent: 28 February 2010 20:31
To: Radiance general discussion
Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] Re: Preparing an open DXF file for import

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 7:49 PM, R Fritz <rfritz at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> I think it might be possible to get around Autodesk's restrictions by
> writing a script that would run in the AutoCAD environment. Such a script,
I
> think, could directly create files in an export format. It would have to
be
> quite a script, though!

I looked at AutoCAD scripting for a while but I found that a simple
"scripted" solution will only allow you access to a few element types
but not the whole set.

The best solution to get polygons out of AutoCAD still seems to be
3DSOUT. If that some day is incompatible or not available for the
next AutoCAD release then we will probably have to spend even
more money on some other apps like Rhino or Max and hope that
they can import AutoCAD and export polygons.

Regards,
Thomas

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