POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Import of 3d-cad-data : Re: Import of 3d-cad-data Server Time
10 Aug 2024 01:21:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Import of 3d-cad-data  
From: Ken
Date: 10 Apr 2000 03:22:09
Message: <38F1814F.F837C509@pacbell.net>
Warp wrote:
> 
>   There are lots of features that would be nice in povray, but not everything
> can be achieved with a reasonable amount of efforts, and the resources
> available are quite limited. Not everything can be done, so it's more
> important to concentrate in the essential parts.

Just adding support for IGES would cost someone a lot of money. The
latest release of the spec for the IGES standard will run you a few
thousand dollars and you still have to go through the efforts of
making it compatible with POV-Ray.

-- 
Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/


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