IRC log for #brlcad on 20101202

00:03.15 ``Erik usually for something like a conversion to a facetized (triangles) format, you specify the 'top level' pieces and walk down stopping at the 'region' (single component of homogenous material), exporting all regions as seperate entities
00:24.44 DX^ so I have to give specify each object on the command line?
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00:28.33 ``Erik a toplevel object, not necessarily all objects
00:29.05 ``Erik for example, moss.g has a 'toplevel' of "all.g", but if you run g-stl on it, you'll get a dozen objects in the stl file
00:32.40 DX^ that's ok
00:55.55 DX^ I'm trying to use BRL-CAD to convert from say IGES to STL
00:56.01 DX^ I was trying to make a .g file out of an IGES
00:56.05 DX^ and then convert from .g to STL
00:56.19 DX^ but from the command line it says I need to list an object(s
00:56.22 DX^ )
00:56.30 DX^ and I'm not really sure how to find the top level object name
00:59.07 ``Erik mged file.g tops
01:34.03 DX^ god you people are smarts
01:57.10 DX^ None of these converters seem to work with files created by Autodesk Inventor 2011
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02:22.45 starseeker DX^: probably not natively - what format are you exporting to?
02:30.03 DX^ I've tried IGES and STL
02:30.20 starseeker dxf?
02:31.25 DX^ I can't export from Inventor as DWF
02:31.29 DX^ err dxf
02:32.27 DX^ why an autocad product can't export as dxf? no idea
02:32.45 DX^ I was going to try STEP, too
02:32.51 DX^ but STEP converter compilation failed
02:32.56 DX^ it's not a complicated file by any means
02:33.01 DX^ it's an ellipse that I extruded
02:33.07 DX^ should be pretty simple, or at least I thought
02:33.16 starseeker what's the stl failure?
02:33.41 DX^ one sec I'll tell you
02:34.26 DX^ oh wait I'm an idiot
02:34.29 DX^ I forgot to put -b
02:37.28 DX^ iges still fails though
02:37.59 DX^ Add_nurb_loop_to_face: Edgeuse/vertex mixup!
02:38.02 DX^ is the error
02:42.49 starseeker O.o
02:42.59 starseeker is the file one you can make available as a test case?
02:43.53 DX^ sure
02:44.09 DX^ I have two, both are simple extrusions
02:44.13 DX^ one is an extrusion of an ellipse
02:44.23 DX^ the other is an extrusion of a squiggly NURB
02:46.21 DX^ www.cloudcalx.com/ellipse.igs
02:46.25 DX^ www.cloudcalx.com/squiggle.igs
02:46.35 starseeker sweet - thanks!
02:46.45 starseeker actually, if you can take it one step further...
02:47.06 starseeker could you file a bug at our sourceforge site with the commands you used and attach the files to the bug report?
02:47.45 starseeker (things like version of BRL-CAD used, platform (Windows XP, Redhat, etc.) would also help a lot
02:48.49 DX^ sure
02:49.04 starseeker it's at http://sf.net/projects/brlcad
02:49.05 DX^ bah I gotta make a login :)
02:50.26 starseeker ah, sorry about that
02:50.58 DX^ it's no big deal
02:51.02 DX^ apparently I can just log in with gmail
02:57.06 DX^ Ok
02:57.09 DX^ Both have been uploaded
04:14.48 starseeker thank you :-)
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13:24.18 d-lo Mernin all
13:58.00 CIA-55 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r41495 10/brlcad/trunk/include/raytrace.h: rt_uniresource is in librt/globals.c
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23:00.56 CIA-55 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r41496 10/brlcad/trunk/src/libbn/mat.c: callers of bn_ck_mat() have better knowledge about the state that leads up to a bad matrix so don't print by default at this low level. this fixes double-printing of matrices if you open a corrupt v4.

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