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TVS
Import .DXF file into Processing
Jan 23rd, 2009, 11:38am  
I have been looking for information about this for a while now, and I can hardly find anything about importing files into Processing.
The problem is that I want to be able to import a 'simple' .dxf file (only points and lines) into Processing.

Q1. Is it possible to import .dxf and show the model?
Q2. If Q1 is negative, is it possible to make a textfile with the coordinates of the .dxf points and lines, and by importing this textfile, what is the script to make points of these coordinates?

Thanks in advance...
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seltar
Re: Import .DXF file into Processing
Reply #1 - Jan 23rd, 2009, 2:48pm  
You could convert the DXF to one of the other supported 3d-files. I.e. OBJ files.
Or you can read up on DXF (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoCAD_DXF), and create a library for Processing, and then share with all of us Smiley

Not really any way you can convert it into a point-textfile, but if you could, you could then read that text-file, and draw all the points / lines

-seltar
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TVS
Re: Import .DXF file into Processing
Reply #2 - Jan 23rd, 2009, 5:29pm  
Ok, I got it working to convert a model into .OBJ and load it into Processing.

Next step: is there a possibility to 'use'/obtain the coordinates of the lines in the imported .OBJ model?
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