Re: Whats an efficient workflow for importing .IGS?

2014-05-20 Thread Morten Bartholdy
We have used Polytrans for this, but if you have access to Rhino or Maya they can produce a fairly well tesselated polymesh for you. Morten Den 19. maj 2014 kl. 20:31 skrev Ryan Maguire rpmagu...@gmail.com: I haven't found a decent way of getting .IGS files into softimage without having to

Re: Whats an efficient workflow for importing .IGS?

2014-05-20 Thread olivier jeannel
Following advices from our list, I had plain success with Moi3D. It was with Step format, but it handles IGES also. Worth a try. Le 19/05/2014 20:47, Byron Nash a écrit : We eventually had to get Polytrans to keep receiving engineering files from our clients. It seems to handle conversions

Re: Whats an efficient workflow for importing .IGS?

2014-05-20 Thread Simon Reeves
I managed a good conversion from a cad format (I forget which) through rhino fairly recently, worked out well, joining/flipping/meshing Simon Reeves London, UK *si...@simonreeves.com si...@simonreeves.com* *www.simonreeves.com http://www.simonreeves.com* *www.analogstudio.co.uk

Whats an efficient workflow for importing .IGS?

2014-05-19 Thread Ryan Maguire
I haven't found a decent way of getting .IGS files into softimage without having to rebuild parts of the mesh. I have tried 3ds max and everything always imports flawlessly in that software, I guess this . I have tried exporting .FBX .OBJ. I can never get into softimage without issues. -Ryan

Re: Whats an efficient workflow for importing .IGS?

2014-05-19 Thread Byron Nash
We eventually had to get Polytrans to keep receiving engineering files from our clients. It seems to handle conversions well and takes a lot of formats. On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Ryan Maguire rpmagu...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't found a decent way of getting .IGS files into softimage

Re: Whats an efficient workflow for importing .IGS?

2014-05-19 Thread Toonafish
You could also try http://moi3d.com -Ronald On 5/19/2014 20:31, Ryan Maguire wrote: I haven't found a decent way of getting .IGS files into softimage without having to rebuild parts of the mesh. I have tried 3ds max and everything always imports flawlessly in that software, I guess this . I

RE: Whats an efficient workflow for importing .IGS?

2014-05-19 Thread Sven Constable
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Maguire Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 8:32 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Whats an efficient workflow for importing .IGS? I haven't found a decent way of getting .IGS files into softimage without having to rebuild

Re: Whats an efficient workflow for importing .IGS?

2014-05-19 Thread Leoung O'Young
+ 1 for Polytran. Prefer formats are STEP, or Parasolids On 19/05/2014 2:47 PM, Byron Nash wrote: We eventually had to get Polytrans to keep receiving engineering files from our clients. It seems to handle conversions well and takes a lot of formats. On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Ryan