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G'day!
This is my first posting here, be gentle with me...
I've used POV-Ray for a little more than five years, mostly for basic
3D shape assembly, occasional CNC interpretation, and iterative function
analysis...I like it because it's easy to generate a .POV text file
based on the results...
Recently I got Bryce3D for Windows...
Now HERE is a way to really interpret 3D output files...trouble is,
there doesn't seem to be a way to import or interpret .POV files in a
way that Bryce3D can understand...
And it doesn't have to be complex either: Most of my output work is
expressed as rectangular boxes, cylinders, and spheres anyways, so the
output geometry is simple...
Sorry to bug you guys with outsider stuff, but I just have to know if
this is possible...
Thanks!
Be seeing you...
Steve Laybourn
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On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 20:01:12 -0700, Steve Laybourn
<lau### [at] foxinternet net> wrote:
>G'day!
> This is my first posting here, be gentle with me...
> I've used POV-Ray for a little more than five years, mostly for basic
>3D shape assembly, occasional CNC interpretation, and iterative function
>analysis...I like it because it's easy to generate a .POV text file
>based on the results...
> Recently I got Bryce3D for Windows...
> Now HERE is a way to really interpret 3D output files...trouble is,
>there doesn't seem to be a way to import or interpret .POV files in a
>way that Bryce3D can understand...
> And it doesn't have to be complex either: Most of my output work is
>expressed as rectangular boxes, cylinders, and spheres anyways, so the
>output geometry is simple...
> Sorry to bug you guys with outsider stuff, but I just have to know if
>this is possible...
> Thanks!
> Be seeing you...
> Steve Laybourn
Pay a visit to Unkle Ken's Link Page in p.a.f-a-q and look for 3DWin.
It can manage POV 2.2 spheres, iirc. Other than that, perhaps it will
be easier to generate your output directly in a format that Bryce can
understand (say, dxf), depending on the utilities that you use.
You said "occasional CNC interpretation"... Am I right in guessing
that you mean "Computer Numerical Control" here? This summer I will be
operating and programming a laser technological system based on a
FANUC CNC and it would be really helpful if I can convert my scripts
to something POV can understand. Can you point out any utilities that
can manage this?
Thanks in advance.
Peter Popov
ICQ: 15002700
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Peter Popov wrote:
> Pay a visit to Unkle Ken's Link Page in p.a.f-a-q and look for 3DWin.
> It can manage POV 2.2 spheres, iirc. Other than that, perhaps it will
> be easier to generate your output directly in a format that Bryce can
> understand (say, dxf), depending on the utilities that you use.
Actually I think it is CrossRoads that does what you are talking about.
It too is listed in my links collection.
> You said "occasional CNC interpretation"... Am I right in guessing
> that you mean "Computer Numerical Control" here? This summer I will be
> operating and programming a laser technological system based on a
> FANUC CNC and it would be really helpful if I can convert my scripts
> to something POV can understand. Can you point out any utilities that
> can manage this?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Peter Popov
> ICQ: 15002700
If you can output your data as gerber files you may find the following
site inspirational. The utility at the listed site will take a gerber file
and output a pov script for a printed circuit board. While not entirely
what you are looking for gerber data files are a format of choice for
many cnc operations and you may be able to contact the author for more
information on how he accomplished this.
http://hem.passagen.se/warp/
--
Ken Tyler
mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net
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On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 15:22:58 -0700, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> If you can output your data as gerber files you may find the following
>site inspirational. The utility at the listed site will take a gerber file
>and output a pov script for a printed circuit board. While not entirely
>what you are looking for gerber data files are a format of choice for
>many cnc operations and you may be able to contact the author for more
>information on how he accomplished this.
>
>http://hem.passagen.se/warp/
Aren't gerber files used for PCB design? I remember my brother
mentioning them when he studied OrCAD in school. What I am talking
about is a Fanuc 3C CNC using a Fanuc 500 interpolator and no
high-level FAPT. My brother wrote a program that interprets the Fanuc
500 command script and interpolates the curves thus described, and I
added an export to POV prisms... but it is sloooow (imagine a
cubic_spline prism with 1500 control points!) Since the CNC is really
old, it only uses linear and circular interpolation, so in terms of
POV objects the output can be represented as linear_spline prisms and
pie slices of cylinders. The math to do this evades me, though. Any
help, anyone?
Peter Popov
ICQ: 15002700
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