> It is possible if you are willing to write a conversion program :)


I see the problem but it is an important feature. A lot of things you
fight hours or days with (in povray or moray) are done in seconds with
good cad-systems. No question: the very good ones are too expensive, but
there are also cheaper ones that work pretty good and often you have
parttime-access to cad-systems, sometimes you have an old one at home.
Beside this: there are a lot of companies who put their products in
iges, step format... in the web.
It is a pity, that it is so complicated to render geometry that was
generated with cad: you first have to model, then mesh the part in a
different program , export the mesh, convert the format to a
3DWin-format, import with the correct feature-angles to 3DWIN to create
UDO's, and then the files are about 20MB.....and on the other side you
have the complete and correct geometry-descrption in your cad-system :-)

chris

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