Might check into PolyTrans at: http://store.yahoo.com/3dcafe/polytrans.html

Bob

"Lionheart" <lio### [at] gmxnet> wrote in message
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> Hello all folks !
>
> Visualizing CAD Modelles created with CAD Systems like Pro/Engineer and
> CATIA is a hard thing to do. For documentation and presentation purposes
> I want to render my CAD modells using  POVRAY because of its unlimited
> possibilities. Does anyone know methods how to import CAD data in form
> of IGES files, describing the surface of the CAD Modells, directly in to
> the POVRAY system ? I found no possibilitty to import these data even in
> modellers like MORAY. Perhaps another possible way is to transform the
> IGES surfaces into a mesh via triangulation. Triangulation is very easy
> to do with CATIA. But how may I transform the generated triangles into
> the smoth_traingle obejects used by POVRAY  ?
>
> Greetings, Lionheart.
>
>

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