cadman wrote in message <377fe279@news.povray.org>...
>What else would you want to export besides a triangle mesh?  If you are
>looking to export solid models (CSG), I wrote a program that works with a
>DXF2POV converter I wrote.  It won't convert existing files, however it
>works well when starting fresh.  If you (or anyone) would be interested in
>such a thing, please let me know.
>
>Mark Wagner <mar### [at] gtenet> wrote in message
>news:375f617e@news.povray.org...
>> Does anyone know of a utility to convert AutoCAD DWG files to POV-Ray
>files?
>> I don't want to convert by way of a DXF file because that produces a
>> triangle mesh.
>>
>> Mark


AutoCAD stores solid objects internally as the individual primitives
(spheres, cones, wedges, etc.), and if I could convert the drawing into
POV-Ray primitives, the resulting rendering would look better than a
triangle mesh, without taking up enormous amounts of disk space.

Mark

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