[Bf-funboard] GreatBuildings 3dmf import

[Karl Kühberger]

Hi Pedro,

I am waiting for this feature too! It would be really great.
But because I am not a coder, I can still wait ;)

Cheers,
Karl



Am 01.06.2005 um 20:45 schrieb Pedro Sacramento:

> Do you know if there is a 3DMF import script for blender? I've googled
> about it but didn't find any script for that...
> I am an Architecture student and sometimes need to work with the 3d
> models from www.greatbuildings.com, where all the models are in 3dmf
> format. I am able to edit them on Blender, but I need to:
>
> 1 - Open the 3DMF file with Design
> Workshop(http://www.artifice.com/dw.html, it's poor, ugly and only
> exports as 3dmf!) and save as ASCII 3DMF format (there are 2 types of
> 3dmf: binary and ASCII, default of the site files is binary)
> 2 - convert ASCII 3DMF to VRML 97 with 3dmf2wrl
> (http://www.crispen.org/src/3dmf2wrl.zip), (c source code is avalable
> for download on the site)
> 3 - import it with 3dsmax (I think there's a problem with Blender's
> VRML97 importing 'cos it's not able to read my wrl files)
> 4 - Export as DXF
> 5 - Import DXF with Blender (Blender DXF importing looks great!)
> 6 - Edit it with Blender, my favorite 3d software!
>
> It worked for me, but It would be much better if there was a direct
> way to do that. I've found many other users on forums interested on
> editing greatbuildings-dot-com's 3dmf files. If Blender could import
> this files, it would certainly bring many architecture students to the
> OpenSource world :D. I've already tested importing VRML97 with Blender
> 2.37 but it didn't work... Dunno the rank of such a feature on
> project's priorities, btw, maybe on a 2.38, 2.39 ...
>
> Thank you for your great work, and God bless the OpenSource!
> Pedro Sacramento
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