[GRASS-user] 3D DXF output: howto?

[Benjamin Ducke]

I just loaded a few dozen points with coordinates around 600000
into blender and it worked.
I was able to load the points, select them and zoom into them.
However, the -1000 to +1000 range is still present in some menu widgets
and the navigation outside of it seems difficult.
I also experimented with importing 43.000+ points and after ca. 10
minutes of waiting for the result, I killed the program.

Anyway, my coordinates are local coordinates with a very small range, so 
I will  not hit that limit.

Best,

Benjamin

paallen at attglobal.net wrote:
> Benjamin,
> 
> Just one warning.  About 1-2 years ago I too looked at using blender an I discovered a problem.  Blender at that time could only work withe coordinates (x,y, and z ) in the range of +/-10000.00.  Which is a problem for most realworld coordinates.
> 
> Does this limitation still exist?
> Do your coordinates exceed this range?
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Phillip Allen
> 
> Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Ducke <benjamin.ducke at ufg.uni-kiel.de>
> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:37:01 
> To:GRASS user list <grassuser at grass.itc.it>,       GRASS devel <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: [GRASS-user] 3D DXF output: howto?
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am currently trying to get some 3D points out of GRASS and into a
> 3D modeller (blender.org) fur further processing.
> 
> Two questions arise:
> 
> 1. My GRASS vector points are 2D + elevation attribute. Is it possible
> to map the elevation attribute to a Z coordinate and create a 3D map?
> 
> 2. Is it possible to output 3D vector points as 3D DXF?
> 
> If not, maybe someone could detail on what needs to be done and I will
> try and hack up something.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Benjamin
> 

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