Dave N6NZ wrote:
IGES is an old US military standard. It means 'Initial Graphics Exchange Specification' and the specification for it is freely available, since it's a work from a US government agency (I got it ;-). As the name says, it was meant as preliminary work, but servedI don't know much about 3D file formats. I know stl is basically a bag of triangles, and I think stl is also. So while you can communicate a hull, you can't do much more. No parametric information, no material information, no joint information, etc. Not sure about iges, I know pretty much nothing about it.
it's purpose for decades. Now it's being replaced by STEP... For the reason that STEP costs a lot of money, I wonder how the FreeCAD guyswant to keep the promisse to provide import and export for it - maybe a feature
of the OpenCASCADE kernel - but how did they? _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user