From: Bo Atkinson (boa1@pivot.net)
Date: Mon Apr 02 2007 - 21:57:24 EEST
Soon to be released formZ version (now in public BETA) has added STEP
conversion to the very wide spectrum of file conversion. If one
forgoes the extra rendering like radiosity, final gather etc , the
price is not much more than Rhino. Free download demo also available.
On Mar 26, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Ed Lambourne wrote:
> Check out http://www.ps-exchange.com/
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> This is a Delcam service that allows you to download the PS-
> Exchange software for free and use it to read the data file (DWG,
> Catia, Pro-E, SolidWorks, Rhino etc. If you decide that you want to
> save the file in an output format, e.g. IGES, STEP etc., you pay on
> a per file basis using a voucher that you purchase on the web-site
> costing around $55 - $70.
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> Hope that helps!
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> Ed Lambourne
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> Delcam
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> From: Ricardo Amaral [mailto:rp-ml@modellistica.com.br]
> Sent: 23 March 2007 23:27
> To: RP-ML
> Subject: Re: [rp-ml] DWG to IGES
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> Try Rhino, less than $1000 and there is a free trial.
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> Ricardo
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> Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:34:52 -0500
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> chathamresearch@gmail.com
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> > In the process of sending several DWG files to CNC machine shops,
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> > we found that many of the shops did not seem to be able to use
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> > their CNC machines with anything other than IGES. Is there a
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> > simple way of converting DWG to IGES without spending $5K for an
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> > AutoCad upgrade to Inventor.
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> >
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> > We were really suprized that many of the CNC machine shops appear
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> > to be in the dark ages when it comes to interfacing STL or 3D DXF
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> > files.
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> > REL
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> > PS
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> > Are there any machine shops on the list that can interface with an
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> > STL file more directly?
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