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28 Jul 2024 12:32:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: UDO file size limits?  
From: Ken
Date: 17 Aug 2000 16:59:11
Message: <399C51B5.506F6DF9@pacbell.net>
Steve Clarke wrote:
> 
> List,
> 
> I'm modeling a highly detailed F1 race car in Rhino 1.1 and exporting as a
> Moray udo object.  I think I have encountered some limits in file size
> because of the following:
> If I export the entire model as a udo and attempt to render in Moray
> 3.2/Povray 3.1, I will get an error like this:
> 
> error: no triangles in triangle mesh
> rear_susp_object62
> 
> I was able to locate 'object62.  Knowing what the object is I went back into
> Rhino and exported a smaller portion of the model which included 'object62.
> This time I was able to get a render with Moray/Povray.  This leads me to
> believe that I may have run into some kind of limitation for the size of the
> file.  Would this be the case?  Workarounds?

What that error message usually means is that your mesh object(s) contained
nothing but degenerate triangles which POV-Ray will not accept. I have
seen this in the past when using 3DWin to convert between various formats
but only rarely.

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