Dear all

Does anyone have experience of transferring solid models from a MEMS CAD
package (such as Coventorware, for example) to a rendering and animation
program (such as POV-ray or 3DMax)?

Quite often the vibrations of a MEMS resonator (for example) are
difficult to explain just using an SEM image or a still 3D image from a
CAD solid model. Coventorware produces 3D models of MEMS devices in IGES
format, a standard CAD object description format. There are easy-to-use
animation programs that work well in engineering and scientific
visualisation (e.g. POV-ray) but they accept only a limited set of file
formats describing objects in the "scene". Has anyone bridged-the-gap
and found a way of transferring and converting 3D models from CAD
package to animation package?

Peter Cumpson

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