> I've been looking for quit some time for a tool that converts Pro/Engineer 
> files
> or SolidWorks files directly to Pov files. Either that or one which 
> converts the
> STEP files to Pov files.
> I tried a number of tools: CrossRoads, 3D Object Converter but they all 
> don't
> support "normal" STEP files.

The issue is that STEP stores the surfaces as mathematical descriptions, not 
a triangle mesh.  In theory it should be possible to directly convert the 
STEP to POV primitives and retain the perfect mathematical precision, but I 
guess nobody has written this yet.  I started to look into it but the STEP 
format is pretty complicated.  This would be the best way of using POV to 
render 3D CAD files.

> Anyone any experience with a tool that does make that possible?

Export them from Pro/E as an slp file, then use slp2pov.

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