Solid Cubes as DXF File

[hanss]

I am working on a project where I need the most simple dxf file possible, without any needless information.

Description:

4 solid cubes with the colors green, black, red and blue placed together to form a large cube. Each cube should be 1 cm3.

I would appreciate any help!

Kind regards
Hanss
Zurich, Switzerland

 

[Guest0527211403]

I don't think you'd want to use Pro/E for this. I've never tried, but my guess is you'll get a lot of unwanted junk in a DXF export.

Is this for a class?

 

[hanss]

Thank you very much for looking at this. What I would like are 8 solid cubes with different colors (solid modeling) which are placed together to form one large cube. I would then like to import the file into acrobat 3d and enable cross section views within acrobat 3d showing the diffent colors.

If anyone could post the DXF coding for one solid modeling cube, this would also be great since my research so far indicates that DXF does not have this capability.

I want to use DXF since it is ascii based and I could program my data-base to product the DXF code.

Many Thanks
Hanss

 

[looslib]

DXF does not support solid bodies. It is a 2D flat structured transfer medium.

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[hanss]

Many thanks for clearing this up!

My goal was to get msaccess to create DXF ascii code based on values from a table and thereby produce a structure with many cubes where the colors of the cubes reflect values from the table. I was then going to import the structure into acrobat 3d. By viewing cross sections of the structure a lot of information could be conveyed to the viewer.

I guess what I need is a graphing program which could create such a structure from an excel file and then export it as a cad file to acrobat 3d. I will keep on looking...

Many thanks!
Hanss

 

[jeff4136]

/*
The following group codes apply to 3dsolid entities.

3dsolid group codes Group codes Description
100 Subclass marker (AcDbModelerGeometry)
70 Modeler format version number (currently = 1)
1 Proprietary data (multiple lines < 255 characters each)
3 Additional lines of proprietary data
(if previous group 1 string is greater than 255 characters)
*/

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/item?siteID=123112&id=2882295&linkID=2475323

http://www.autodesk.com/techpubs/autocad/dxf/dxf2000htm.zip

Best bet is to get someone with AutoCAD to generate a sample file for you.