Anyone have a GOOD understanding of DXF files?
by Jarrod Roberson · in Technical Issues · 06/10/2002 (2:40 pm) · 4 replies
I have written a dxf2map converter.
It is new code I developed mostly myself.
It "works" sort of. It converts the polygons to infinite planes but I just can't figure out how the information in the dxf file relates the polygons into shape information, the file format is obfuscated at best.
I have the dxf parser working and the map file printer working, just need to understand the dxf entities relationships.
If anyone really KNOWs dxf files inside and out and can explain or point me to the correct information, I have searched the web and autocad sites all over, I can finish this up and you will be able to use what ever you want to build interiors with then, as long as you can get it into an ascii dxf file format.
Oh yeah it is cross platform also :)
So you Mac and Linux users can benefit also :)
It is new code I developed mostly myself.
It "works" sort of. It converts the polygons to infinite planes but I just can't figure out how the information in the dxf file relates the polygons into shape information, the file format is obfuscated at best.
I have the dxf parser working and the map file printer working, just need to understand the dxf entities relationships.
If anyone really KNOWs dxf files inside and out and can explain or point me to the correct information, I have searched the web and autocad sites all over, I can finish this up and you will be able to use what ever you want to build interiors with then, as long as you can get it into an ascii dxf file format.
Oh yeah it is cross platform also :)
So you Mac and Linux users can benefit also :)
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#2
06/10/2002 (4:43 pm)
thanks Harold those are some links I have not come across I will check them out!
#3
Tod Palin is working in a DXF plugin for quark, maybe he have useful information about it.
Quark DXF Plugin Section
another good site for DXF information
good luck
01/15/2003 (8:47 pm)
Interested in this toolTod Palin is working in a DXF plugin for quark, maybe he have useful information about it.
Quark DXF Plugin Section
another good site for DXF information
good luck
#4
Of course, there's pleanty of game-related stuff I could use it for too ;-)
01/17/2003 (1:57 pm)
Hey cool :-) I've got a lot of tools that will send stuff out in DXF format (2D or 3D). One of the more intesting items - My wife and I are in the process of designing a house. Use a nice little package that does everything, execept thier 3D visualization is slow as heck. Would be interesting to be able to DXF it out, then DXF to MAP, and use Torque to look at it :-)Of course, there's pleanty of game-related stuff I could use it for too ;-)
Torque Owner Harold "LabRat" Brown
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/3dformats/dxf14/
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mxr/gfx/3d/DXF12.spec
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mxr/gfx/3d/DXF10.spec