In article <3e71d811$1@news.povray.org>, "CB" <col### [at] nospamcouk> 
wrote:

> Is it possible to "import" objects or shapes created in other graphics
> drawing programs such as DXF meshes, WMF etc.

There are converters that can handle some of these things...I'm pretty 
sure there's a DXF to POV converter, but I've never heard of WMF.


> In particular I have a shape which I created in CorelDraw which I can
> obviously export in various formats, and I'd like to be able to use it in
> PovRAY in an extruded form.

Hmm...I assume this is a vector drawing? Someone recently posted a 
converter that generated POV-Ray prism objects from PDF or PostScript 
files. Look in povray.binaries.utilities.

Alternatively, you could convert it to a black and white raster image 
and use that as input for a height field. This isn't very efficient, and 
has problems from the use of a height field (you might have trouble 
getting the sides to look OK), but it might work.

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