Peter,

You might try NuGraf  at http://www.okino.com/.  They have a tutorial on
IGES to 3DMAX, Lightwave etc.
If you need any help creating visuals for your animation give me a call.


Steve


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Cumpson" 
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 7:51 AM
Subject: [mems-talk] Animation of MEMS models


> 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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