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>> 	I'm looking, somewhat desperately, for a CATIA to ALIAS, 
>> 	WAVEFRONT, DXF, IGES, or just about anything else translator. 
>> 	The basis for this need is that as part of a large scale 
>> 	visualization attempt, I would like to bring a CATIA generated model 
>> 	into either ALIAS or WAVEFRONT for rendering and fly-through 
>> 	animation.  The model itself is much to large and complicated to 
>> 	consider generation from scratch in WAVEFRONT or ALIAS.  I am
>> 	aware of several, outrageously priced, commercial translators,
>> 	but at $10,000 each these are not really options we can 
>> 	afford to consider.  So if anyone has any information on
>> 	reasonably priced or public domain CATIA translators I would
>> 	love to hear the information.  Even some idea as to the
>> 	CATIA EXPORT FILE format would be helpful since the makers
>> 	of CATIA are conspiratorially tight-lipped with any sort of
>> 	file format information.

   Sorry, but I don't have anything to offer but my own experience
converting CATIA files to TDI. We had to send a 9-track tape to France
in order to do a translation, as the only translator available had to
run on a mainframe and they had no plans to port it over to a
workstation. Sorry.

                                  Chris Williams
                                     chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu