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Hi guys,
I have a general question regarding the creation of
a model. I have been working on creating a model of a Learjet 55, using CATIA
V5. This is mainly because I used this during my degree and am basically
familiar with it. I am also determined to have a model which is as close to the
real thing as possible. This means if the fuselage is 2m in diameter, I want the
model to have a 2m diameter fuselage as well! CATIA is awesome for this. A
screenshot is at
The problem is that CATIA works with surfaces, as
you can see in the pic, but things like blender and ac3d seem to use nodes. This
makes it hard to convert into .ac format. I can save the file as either wrl,
stp, igs, or cgr file formats. I have tried saving it as a wrl format, and using
this directly in flightgear. The file size is around 2 Mb, and the frame rate
drops from ~20 to ~2 fps. I have also tried using the demo version of AC3D, and
saving directly into .ac format. This still gives very big files
though.
Was wondering if anyone has ever done it this way,
or if someone can suggest a good way to convert it and still get a reasonably
sized model file out. Thanks
Tim J
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