On Sun, 14 Jun 1998 17:04:36 -0600, Nathan Kopp <nk8### [at] ltuedu>
wrote:

>Johannes Hubert wrote:
>>
>> As I see it DXF is a open format.
>
>Thanks for clearing that up.
> 
>> Anyway. Standard DXF is ASCII too. DXF-files with meshes are even larger
>> than POV-files with meshes.
>
>Interesting... I never compared file sizes. Is there a good standard binary
>format, though?
>

I'm not sure if this will help or not, but 3DS mesh files are binary
and they save a LOT of space. I'm not sure if the format is free to
use, and I'm not sure if the format actually supports NURBS directly.
You might have to convert to meshes to store a NURBS model, I don't
know. Many programs will support the 3DS format, I do know that.

Later,

Glen Berry
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