We've had some experience working with IDEAS CAD files for our underwater robot. They are pretty huge and gnarly (buggy). We used Chisel at http://www.trapezium.com to get rid of all errors, remove bloat (like 10-digit numbers everywhere) and do some geometric compression. Then gzip compress. Here are some filesizes to give an idea. 1,221,716 auv-ideas-Line-1.wrl 2,214,445 auv-ideas-Line-2.wrl 110,318 auv-ideas-Line-2_2.chiseled.wrz 8,255,828 auv-ideas-Shaded-1.wrl 13,151,830 auv-ideas-Shaded-2.wrl 537,697 auv-ideas-Shaded-2_2.condense.wrz Disclaimer: have not tried any of these in Java3D. File copies can be placed online on request. I'm a long-time beta tester with these folks. Chisel uses Vorlon, their syntax checker, which is free. They charge a little for Chisel after a trial. Each is written in Java. all the best, Don -- Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code UW/Br Root 200 work 831.656.2149 Monterey California 93943-5000 USA fax 831.656.3679 Virtual worlds/underwater robots/Internet http://web.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
