.3DS

[Roecus]

Does anybody know what program makes .3DS files?

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

3-D Studio?????

[Scott Bond]

.3ds Graphics (3D Studio)

[Bullines]

Formerly Autodesk's 3D Studio, now Discreet's 3D Studio Max.

[olib]

3D Studio Max, its up to version 4.1 now i think.

It is prety much the industry standard for computer 3D animations. I think producers of the movie Jurrasic Park used an earlier version for the dinosaurs and efx etc in the movie.

 

[ 03-07-2003, 02:05 AM: Message edited by: olib ]

[Rick Damiani]

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Does anybody know what program makes .3DS files?

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3D Studio (DOS) used those files natively. For a while, it was a kinda standard 3D rendering format on the PC, and supported by several non-Autodesk tools. IIRC, the data stored is very much like STL data - i.e. it is a mesh, rather than surfaces. Not all that useful for CNC. If you have one or two files in that format, I can try to convert them into IGES for you. The results may not be all that good thoguh.

[Roecus]

Thanks for the feed back!