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General Category => General Anim8or Forum => Topic started by: Aeth on March 06, 2009, 04:55:23 am
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Alright, I've seen a couple of topics talking about being able to use .3ds files in both AutoCAD and Anim8or, and I remember seeing somewhere that there was a plug-in that would allow Anim8or to export or import (hopefully both) .dwg files, which are the standard drawing files for AutoCAD. Now, I have AutoCAD, and take classes for it as well, so you can imagine I'd be interested in this plug-in. Not to mention I'm a bit better in AutoCAD when it comes to modeling (YAY DYNAMIC INPUT). Has anyone seen this plug-in lying around?
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I think the .dwg file format is binary, and currently Anim8or's scripting language doesn't support binary file import/export. It can only do ascii file export. So until Anim8or has this capability then we can't do anything with that format.
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You can export objects in autocad to .3ds using the "3DSOUT" command.
Then just import into anim8or.
It is limited, I wanted to export a simple 2d line drawing.
As far as I'm aware this can't be done, only solids can be exported.
If anybody knows of a way to export 2d line drawings please let me know.
Thanks.
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*sniffles* My hero....
you so just made my MONTH!
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Just remember to let me know if you find a way of exporting flat objects.
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you might could create the object as a 3-D figure, just set the accuracy on the drawing really high and make it the absolute minimum width you can. i'll see if i can get it to work your way though.
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As I know, you can export to dxf which is much better supported. I do not know now if Anim8or can load it, but there is an possibility to use Blender as convertor from DXF to 3DS or OBJ and then use it in Anim8or.
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i actually have blender, but I didn't spend much time on it, didn't like the interface. I'll go ahead and try it this way too.