On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 00:28 -0400, Rob Butts wrote: > The machine shop in using wants an IGES file. > > For those of you who've used bender. I have a 21" x 16" grid of > thicknesses of my backrest for every inch both horizontally and > vertically. What would you suggest is the best procedure to come up > with a 3-D model of the backrest? > > 1. Place a point with x, y and z values for each data-point? > 2. For each row of points make a horizontal line, or splines? > 3. For all the splines make a surface, interpolating the points in > between each spline? > 4. Create a 3-D model from the surface and thickness? > I just did a quick test of VariCAD and though it can export IGES, I cant see any way to generate a smooth irregular surface.
My approach would be to write a program to do the above steps, but that would take some time. __ Ormund _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
