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Do not take offence.
Don't worry, not offended, just curious :)
Bernd
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Hmmm... Vanished they have... Most strange this is...
And back they are. For me this looks like a dummy page. The German text is written (or translated) by amateurs, and contains information that matches the age of the linked products. Back in the time when animation was magic. Nothing there actually is current or serious.
This is what it looks like, when you're developing the structure of a website, filling it with placeholders. Maybe the owners think that nobody sees them, as this is a "dead" domain.
I suspect the holders of the domain are in germany.…
no good can come of this.
I am in Germany, too. What's your point?
Bernd
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I have been contacted by a client who is asking if I can find a way to import a CAD file types that I've never seen before. The file types are .jt , .stp and .step files. There is a model that is in these formats and to do the project I need to find a way to get these into EIAS. Anyone know anything about these file formats?
Hi Bill,
I've done all of them. For JT I've got a PolyTrans add-on, and STEP/STP can be done with a large number of applications, including ViaCAD mentioned above. Using FormZ for this, you would even be able to get the assembly hierarchy to FACT/EIAS.
The file that I'm told is a .jt does not used a .jt at the end of anything but rather it is folder filled with many files with all different names. I think this format saves out each part independently. Here is a example of a few of the first in a series of files.17d20418-2m3_t3.prt.1
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14_940_111_a_12_10.asm.1
This is a Pro/E assembly, not a JT file.
Bernd
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In the absence of any news on the tesla modeler,
how about teaming up with Newercenter again?
Well, just to propose something different here:
In my opinion ViaCAD is the product which already is quite close to what EIM was or Tesla should be. It's ACIS based, offers usable modeling tools, a working CAD import, an existing FACT export, and runs on Win and Mac. Files exported from ViaCAD shade fine in EIAS (once "use polygon color" is disabled). And it's available for $99, which really makes it a candidate for adding it to another application like EIAS.
It has its limitations, sure. For me the worst thing about ViaCAD is the missing ability to create hierarchically sorted groups or assemblies, which both EIM and FormZ can do (and every other CAD application out there, too). But maybe this is something that can be requested from Tim (Olson), when talking about teaming up forces…
What I'd love to see even more is bringing together what was an unbeatable team years ago. FormZ or Bonzai3D as a companion for EIAS. Again, something should be done with the current FormZ FACT export, it's quite difficult to get a good shading of objects (although it's possible). But again, maybe the "teaming up" offer could help to get things fixed.
Anyway, these are all existing products, and all include FACT support. Tools like Silo are without any use for me (personally), because I mostly work with CAD files from clients. An SDS modeler is simply the wrong tool for this, and even EIM/Tesla were or are (probably) not designed as an SDS modeler.
Bernd
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I will be upgrading to Snow Leopard from Tiger (10.4.11) in order to use Amorphium.
In order to run Amorphium, you need to downgrade to Panther. This was the last version working. That's why I'm using the Windows version of Amorphium, running in Parallels.
Bernd
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dr,
this "extended precision coordinates" thing has never worked (I've tried once or twice, years ago), and to be true, I don't even know what it's good for. I've never had a problem without this option, things were as precise as they should be. So simply forget about this mega-turbo-crashing switch, you don't need it :-)
Bernd
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Form•Z -- Oh... my pride and joy, back in the day. Does anyone have any recent experience with this application? I, unfortunately, stopped my upgrade path with Form•Z back when EI Modeler came out. To upgrade to a current version now would be a major investment. It used to export .FACT files wonderfully. Any opinions on the current version?
David,
although I have quite a lot of 3D modelers/applications (ViaCad, SharkFX, IronCAD/Inovate, VX Modeler, EI Modeler), FormZ is the only application that's really used for modeling work. Every version since 2.7x, currently at 6.6.
For some unknown reasons, FACT transfer to EIAS isn't as easy as it was with the "vintage" combination FZ 2.x/EIAS 2.x. With these old versions, exporting was as difficult as selecting the "export" command, and the result looked perfectly smooth in EIAS. With current versions, you have to experiment with a lot of triangulation/facetting settings, until the result looks as good as in earlier days. Sometimes, especially with quite complex CAD shapes, I tend to export to SAT and do the FACT conversion in SharkFX (ViaCad), which is more of the one-click-solution now. In this regard SharkFX has replaced the EI Modeler for me, which I've been using for FACT export for quite a long time, even when the models have been created in FZ.
Bernd
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From a explanatory animation about a diving bell fro smithsonian institute.
Nice :-)
It's good to see that - now that christmas is over - the bells are re-used ;-)
And it's good to see you here on board, Jens.
Bernd
Eitechnologygroup Web site!
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Mickael,
as I said: don't worry, everything is well. I just was curious what you wanted to say, as a link between eitech and Germany wouldn't have been something impossible. There have been times when Ramjac had been (or would have been) interested in such a link/collaboration/association in any form. However, this is "water under the bridge" or "Schnee von gestern", as we would say in Germany :)
Bernd