I work in a beverage manufacturing facility. We recently added a tank farm 
-- lots of blending tanks, pumps, pipes & control pods. This particular 
area was fully engineered & placed in an AutoCAD drawing (3D) before any 
ground was broken.

There were 'after' photos taken of the area, but the ambient [and|or] flash 
lighting don't do justice to the thought and labor which was put into this 
project. 

Rather than calling in a professional photographer, we discussed the 
possibility of converting the AutoCAD drawings to POV and creating images 
from that.

Before I delve into unknown areas and make promises I cannot keep, I want 
to know if there is a particular CAD > POV conversion application anyone 
has used with any success? I would prefer to be able to manipulate lighting 
and camera positioning (a'la Moray) before export to POV.

A couple of requirements:

Preferbly should support Autocad 2000. If not, I could convert to earlier 
version I guess. 

Said application should cost $500 (US) or less.

Thanks!

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Paul Hustava wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Before I delve into unknown areas and make promises I cannot keep, I want
> to know if there is a particular CAD > POV conversion application anyone
> has used with any success? I would prefer to be able to manipulate lighting
> and camera positioning (a'la Moray) before export to POV.

Have a look at:

http://autocad2pov.povray.co.uk/index.html


Christoph

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http://autocad2pov.povray.co.uk/index.html

> Said application should cost $500 (US) or less.

How about 0 $   ;o)

Regards,
Hugo

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Paul Hustava wrote:
>I work in a beverage manufacturing facility. We recently added a tank farm
>-- lots of blending tanks, pumps, pipes & control pods. This particular
>area was fully engineered & placed in an AutoCAD drawing (3D) before any
>ground was broken.
>
>There were 'after' photos taken of the area, but the ambient [and|or] flash
>lighting don't do justice to the thought and labor which was put into this
>project.
>
>Rather than calling in a professional photographer, we discussed the
>possibility of converting the AutoCAD drawings to POV and creating images
>from that.
>
>Before I delve into unknown areas and make promises I cannot keep, I want
>to know if there is a particular CAD > POV conversion application anyone
>has used with any success? I would prefer to be able to manipulate lighting
>and camera positioning (a'la Moray) before export to POV.
>
>A couple of requirements:
>
>Preferbly should support Autocad 2000. If not, I could convert to earlier
>version I guess.
>
>Said application should cost $500 (US) or less.
>
>Thanks!


The autocad2pov looks like the keep it simplist approach.
I don't have experience with it as I use Pro Engineer (is there a proE2pov )
and then the 3rd party software of Ultimate Unwrap at
http://www.unwrap3d.com/
Recently Brad Bolthouse added a plugin ( I guess he owns the joint) to
accomadate POVRAY users.  Below is an excerpt from his news letter...

"The POV-Ray plugin has been updated to support the newly released
POV-Ray v3.5 rendering engine, which now supports UV mapping.
When exporting your model as mesh2, a POV file and a INC file
are created.
...."

His software can open dxf files among a number of other formats (I'm forced
to save as 3dpaint), he charges very little for it.  He also maintained me
(high maintance) with problems I was having.

You also have the option of using his software for UV mapping which I
believe is what most would use Ultimate Unwrap for.
Tony

ton### [at] xenomechanicscom

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hua### [at] post3teledk (Hugo) wrote in <3d7a5ce1$1@news.povray.org>:

>http://autocad2pov.povray.co.uk/index.html
>
>> Said application should cost $500 (US) or less.
>
>How about 0 $   ;o)
>
>Regards,
>Hugo
>
>

Thank you all. I'm going to give both AutoCAD2POV and Unwrap3D (mentioned in 
another followup) a try.

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>
> Have a look at:
>
> http://autocad2pov.povray.co.uk/index.html
>
>

download page seems to be broken, or at least it doesn't work for me, here's
what i get:

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0046'

Permission denied

/acad2pov.asp, line 7

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Hi,

there's somewhere a tool called "slp2pov". As the name says it could only
work with slp files.
Or export your models as obj files and use "objupov" or another Wavefront
converter.

HTH,

Patrik

"Tony LaVigne" <ton### [at] xenomechanicscom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:web.3d7addf916cfb9d488d4e3910@news.povray.org...
> Paul Hustava wrote:
> >I work in a beverage manufacturing facility. We recently added a tank
farm
> >-- lots of blending tanks, pumps, pipes & control pods. This particular
> >area was fully engineered & placed in an AutoCAD drawing (3D) before any
> >ground was broken.
> >
> >There were 'after' photos taken of the area, but the ambient [and|or]
flash
> >lighting don't do justice to the thought and labor which was put into
this
> >project.
> >
> >Rather than calling in a professional photographer, we discussed the
> >possibility of converting the AutoCAD drawings to POV and creating images
> >from that.
> >
> >Before I delve into unknown areas and make promises I cannot keep, I want
> >to know if there is a particular CAD > POV conversion application anyone
> >has used with any success? I would prefer to be able to manipulate
lighting
> >and camera positioning (a'la Moray) before export to POV.
> >
> >A couple of requirements:
> >
> >Preferbly should support Autocad 2000. If not, I could convert to earlier
> >version I guess.
> >
> >Said application should cost $500 (US) or less.
> >
> >Thanks!
>
>
> The autocad2pov looks like the keep it simplist approach.
> I don't have experience with it as I use Pro Engineer (is there a
proE2pov )
> and then the 3rd party software of Ultimate Unwrap at
> http://www.unwrap3d.com/
> Recently Brad Bolthouse added a plugin ( I guess he owns the joint) to
> accomadate POVRAY users.  Below is an excerpt from his news letter...
>
> "The POV-Ray plugin has been updated to support the newly released
> POV-Ray v3.5 rendering engine, which now supports UV mapping.
> When exporting your model as mesh2, a POV file and a INC file
> are created.
> ...."
>
> His software can open dxf files among a number of other formats (I'm
forced
> to save as 3dpaint), he charges very little for it.  He also maintained me
> (high maintance) with problems I was having.
>
> You also have the option of using his software for UV mapping which I
> believe is what most would use Ultimate Unwrap for.
> Tony
>
> ton### [at] xenomechanicscom
>
>

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> 
> Hi,
> 
> there's somewhere a tool called "slp2pov". As the name says it could only
> work with slp files.

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/3014/proe.html

-- 
Ken Tyler

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Fixed now!  Thanks.

"francesco" <fra### [at] molilliorg> wrote in message
news:3d7ca068@news.povray.org...
>
> >
> > Have a look at:
> >
> > http://autocad2pov.povray.co.uk/index.html
> >
> >
>
> download page seems to be broken, or at least it doesn't work for me,
here's
> what i get:
>
> Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0046'
>
> Permission denied
>
> /acad2pov.asp, line 7
>
>
>

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