+++ Footleg [2013-10-11 08:24 +0100]: > I used the vrml export from Loch to produce a 3D model file which was > suitable to get 3D printed. The article about it (written by Mike Bedford, > who got the printing done) is in the latest issue of Descent magazine. I > could import that model file into other 3D modelling software, so perhaps > there is an application out there which can convert it?
'meshlab' looks like a good tool for doing this http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/ (already packaged in Debian). I expect blender can too, but some goolgeing suggests that this needs extra scripts. The wavefront .obj file seems a fairly straightforward format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavefront_.obj_file#File_format But it only represents surfaces so far as I can see, not lines. So we can export terrain and volumes, but not plain surveys (without faking survey lines into cylinders). It does look like this would be a useful format to output. Or teach meshlab to read/write .3D and/or lox. Do Bruces' mates know that Aven can export a video file directly, animating a survey? However that can only have a mesh surface (as generated by terraintool) currently, which may or may not be 'high quality' enough for their purposes. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/