"Greg M. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> Will pov ever be able to export pov-derived object?  Say, export a pov
> blob or pov isosurface to dxf or mesh?

It is possible that it might but not at any time in the near future.
In case you have missed the many conversations on this in the past
the reason it is not currently possible is because POV-Ray's objects
are internaly represented mathematicaly rather than as constructs of
triangles such as is found in most modelling systems. To be able to
export to .dxf or other 3D file formats a serious amount of work will
have to be done to tesselate each POV-Ray primitive into triangles.
NOT an easy thing to do and almost impossible for some primitives like
the infinite poly, quadric, and quartic objects.

-- 
Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
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