Vector illustrations in Revolution

[Tim Ponn]

On May 24, 2007, at 12:41 AM, Stephen Barncard wrote:

> Anybody up for a a DXF-to-Rev object translator?


The good news...I've got a project going that I call "chatCAD".   
Scenario: two engineers chatting on aim, yahoo, whatever...exchanging  
design ideas via a "whiteboard" of sorts.  However, the results from  
a typical whiteboard app is freehand/bitmap and not very usable in  
any CAD program when the "skill-pooping" session is done.  Besides,  
"freehanding" something drives most engineers nuts...we'd rather  
define endpoints of lines, etc., to achieve usable accuracy.  So,  
chatCAD will use a stripped down dxf-like document to exchange  
graphic ideas during the session and then be fully importable to a  
CAD program afterwards.  I will also (this is the "hopefully" part),  
make it 3D wireframe with help from Derbrill's "AnimationEngine".

The bad news...this is a spare-time project, so it's not likely to be  
complete anytime soon.

I can offer this...I've written many "DXF" utilities that we use in  
house to communicate between CAD and our home grown CNC micro- 
driller.  As a result, I've had to read, manipulate and write DXF  
files many times.  DXF file interpretation can get very ugly.  It's  
not as universal as you would think.


Best Regards,

Timothy R. Ponn