Re: Lightwaver to Rhino

Can you give me a link to Martin's website, I can't seem to find it in the
posts.

Your stuff looks very impressive Jeff.

Tore

"Jim Woodruff" <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Martin,

Thanks for offer :-)

I just counted and there are 86 parts in this particular valve assembly.
Including three complex castings (cap, bonnet and main valve body). The
main
valve body alone took me ~16 hours to model in LW.

And even though it is intriguing to me that you could do a complete set of
production accurate 3D meshes in 15 - 30 minutes -- all drawings / specs
are
released to me under a very restrictive Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA), so
I
couldn't send the drawings to anyone even if I wanted to.

BTW - I did have a look around at your website and your work is excellent.

I have a little gallery website that shows a small portion of my work. I
can't show some of my more interesting stuff because of the same sort of
NDA
restrictions.

http://www.jdwdigital.com

Jim

"Martin Bachlinger" <spam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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As I told you: send me the CAD-drawings, if they are complete (with all
radians and wall thicknesses) it wouldn't take longer than 15-30 min. to
build it and export it as STL.

greetings
Martin
"Jim Woodruff" <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Martin,

Thanks for the offer.

The company provides me with a complete set of paper shop / production
drawings (and a working valve sitting on my desk ;-)

They use a proprietary 2D CAD drawing program (can't think of the name
of
it) that does not export any file drawing formats other than it's own.
They can output PDF from it, but the resulting files are not conformed
so
they can't be used for anything but printing.

The client also has the option of having the rapid prototyping vendor
draw up the valve assembly, it's just that they have worked with me for
the last 10 years or so for all of their imaging (catalogs, brochures,
posters, maintenance manuals, interactive 3D, web imaging, etc) so they
wanted me to do the project.

I'm still investigating the project, but they are on a deadline, so I
figure that they will have to decide which direction to go within the
next week.

Jim

"Martin Bachlinger" <spam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,
if your CAD-problem still exists, i've a few questions:
your customer need's CAD-like data from your valve and you have
detailed
drawing's from what to produce: where did you get them from?
In what format does you customer need these CAD data (only drawing's
or
a special CAD- format)?
I'm asking because i'm mechanical engineer. I work here with
SolidWorks.
And if you only once need the CAD-data I offer you to draw your valve
and send you the data so you can use it to impress your customer.

greetings
Martin

"Jim Woodruff" <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Thanks so much for the info. It sounds like exactly what I was
looking
for. I'll give it shot tomorrow and see what I come with...

Jim

<boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jim,

I just reviewed the docs for Rhino 3 (I have ver.2) and noticed that
the CurveThroughPoints command allows for interpolation on polylines
AND points, even vertices on your imported LW mesh.

Therefore, it is now easy to trace selected vertices on your mesh to
create a curve that can then be extruded, made into a planar face,
revolved, etc. to rcreate your mesh as a NURBS object. The curve
passes through the vertices, unlike a B-spline curve where the
vertices
would indicate cv's.

This is good news. So it CAN be done. Even curves through polyline
points is supported in Rhino2. So you'll just have to become handy
at
learning how to create surfaces from curves in Rhino to get your
NURBS
object.













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