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Your not actually looking at what OpenNURBS is it provides a library
for manipulating STL, STEP and IGES. That is how PCB can use it to
export files for Solidworks and etc.

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Markus Hitter <mah AT jump-ing DOT de> wrote:
>
> Am 23.06.2013 um 03:13 schrieb Evan Foss:
>
>
>> We were looking for an interface to 3D formats so that PCB could have
>> 3D export.
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> I'd articulate that more like: "We're looking to export 3D data usable in
> commonly used CAD applications." Some arbitrary 3D format doesn't help, if
> you can't get it into the mechanical part of the design workflow.
>
> Having _usable_ data limits the exporter pretty much to 3D standards like
> STL, STEP, IGES, perhaps AMF or VRML. If this means to export to some open
> source CAD application first, then to process it further into one of these
> standards, that's fine (for me).
>
>
>
>> Using OpenNURBS does not require you to use Rhino.
>
>
> It would be very helpful to the discussion if you could outline us how to
> get this openNURBS created data into CAD applications like Catia,
> SolidWorks, Inventor, SolidEdge. That's what mechanical engineers are using.
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>
>
> Markus
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> Dipl. Ing. (FH) Markus Hitter
> http://www.jump-ing.de/
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