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In article 18675@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg, escmar@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (~{BmOHIz~}) writes:
chris williams (chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu) wrote:
: >> 	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

   Is this the CATIA from MSC/Nastran? I'm interested in this 
   discussion because I also have a project that is using CATIA.

	The original question dealt with CATIA the high-end CAD
	package produced by Dassault, a french company.

	Gary H.

	

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