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  Re: Budilding a house with POV Ray  
From: Chris Cason
Date: 9 Oct 2004 08:37:02
Message: <4167db6e@news.povray.org>

> 12 years ago DKB, the forefather of POV delivered the
> first fiew on my http://www.pege.org/gemini house
>
> 10 years ago, POV delivered the first video about the
> GEMINI house.
>
> Just right now, I am planing to build an other house for my own.
>
> I just search for software for the construction.
>
> But maybe it happens the same like 1994 with the first video.
> I was 1994 1 week at an art institute in Frankfurt Germany
> to produce it with some Silicon Graphics there.
>
> But after one week, I was so frustrated that I went in the next
> book store and discovered the next generation of DKB, POV
> and created the whole video with my own equipment.
> (500 hours on a 486 DX2/66 notebook for 500 picrues
> with 768 x 576 TV resolution)
>
> Now I check for software to make the whole construction
> and also 3D views.
>
> Are there some help programs around POV?
> Are there conversion programs for usual CAD formats?

While it's probably not useful to you (as it's an expensive
commercial design tool intended for full-time designers), the
CAD program 'Chief Architect' does have POV export which works
quite well.

http://www.chiefarchitect.com/

-- Chris


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