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I use CAD programs (SW, ProE, Rhino) a lot to design mechanical components. I
would like to be able to render those CAD objects in POV-Ray for more visually
pleasing presentation. Is there an easy way to bring CAD objects into POV-ray?
How would one take a CAD definition and convert it into a renderable script?
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"akash" <sky### [at] hotmail com> wrote in message
news:web.48b5cd08a143ba965d1de84f0@news.povray.org...
>I use CAD programs (SW, ProE, Rhino) a lot to design mechanical components.
>I
> would like to be able to render those CAD objects in POV-Ray for more
> visually
> pleasing presentation. Is there an easy way to bring CAD objects into
> POV-ray?
> How would one take a CAD definition and convert it into a renderable
> script?
>
You're likely to need to do it in two steps.
1. Use whatever export options your CAD softwater has to export the objects
in a format for which there is a POV-Ray converter available (e.g. .obj,
.3ds etc).
2. Use a converter such as PoseRay to convert to POV-Ray mesh or mesh2
objects.
The generated POV-Ray objects can be incorporated into your POV-Ray scene
file either using cut and paste or by '#include'ing the files containing the
objects you've converted.
Regards,
Chris B.
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akash nous illumina en ce 2008-08-27 17:54 -->
> I use CAD programs (SW, ProE, Rhino) a lot to design mechanical components. I
> would like to be able to render those CAD objects in POV-Ray for more visually
> pleasing presentation. Is there an easy way to bring CAD objects into POV-ray?
> How would one take a CAD definition and convert it into a renderable script?
>
>
Export your models to an intermediate file, such as .DXF. Most CAD programms can
export to that format.
Import then into PoseRay.
From PoseRay, export to POV (.pov or .inc)
Render in POV-Ray.
--
Alain
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Impressionism: From a distance, shit looks like a garden.
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akash wrote:
> I use CAD programs (SW, ProE, Rhino) a lot to design mechanical
> components. I would like to be able to render those CAD objects in POV-Ray
> for more visually pleasing presentation. Is there an easy way to bring CAD
> objects into POV-ray? How would one take a CAD definition and convert it
> into a renderable script?
Rhino has a POV export option built in. You can choose to export the entire
project as one large file or with each object as its own include file. You
can also use a slider to choose how fine the polygon mesh is. It works
quite well.
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