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Inventor to JPEG & .XGL - Thanks Charlie Bliss

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MDallaire
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‎10-06-2003 04:20 AM
‎10-06-2003 04:20 AM

Inventor to JPEG & .XGL - Thanks Charlie Bliss

Hey all,
I just installed Charlie's Inventor to jpeg plugin and must say this really fills in a gap between Inventor and Solidworks. The .jpeg export works great and the .XGL produces a package like edrawings from Solidworks. It is well worth installing, and, dare I say it, worth Autodesk buying from Mr. Bliss to include in the next version of Inventor.
A must for communicating with clients and suppliers!
Hats off to Charlie - thanks for the cool tool

.md.
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Anonymous
in reply to: MDallaire
‎10-06-2003 06:25 AM
‎10-06-2003 06:25 AM

I'll second that.
Since I've begun using this utility (add-in) to show my work to my boss (who
used VoloViewer before without being impressed), he's been using it in the
board meetings to show the top guns, and I tell you it's making him look
good to simply put it on the big screen and do all the spinning and zooming
in to details they've never seen before.
They looked at the head of marketing and asked him why he didn't have such
tools, and guess who has been visiting my office a great deal lately...8^))
So once again - THANK YOU Charles - this tool is a life saver for Inventor
IMHO.
BR
Peer
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Anonymous
in reply to: MDallaire
‎10-06-2003 02:16 PM
‎10-06-2003 02:16 PM

Gosh, thanks, it is nice to know that some of the stuff I write gets used.

Peer@Home wrote:

>I'll second that.
>Since I've begun using this utility (add-in) to show my work to my boss (who
>used VoloViewer before without being impressed), he's been using it in the
>board meetings to show the top guns, and I tell you it's making him look
>good to simply put it on the big screen and do all the spinning and zooming
>in to details they've never seen before.
>They looked at the head of marketing and asked him why he didn't have such
>tools, and guess who has been visiting my office a great deal lately...8^))
>So once again - THANK YOU Charles - this tool is a life saver for Inventor
>IMHO.
>BR
>Peer
>
>
>
>
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Anonymous
in reply to: MDallaire
‎10-06-2003 03:37 PM
‎10-06-2003 03:37 PM

Hello,

I have looked for free, easily distributable 3D-viewer for some time now and got all excited after reading this thread. I downloaded jpg & compiled XGL-utility as well and gave it a try. This is almost exactly what i have been looking for, since most of the time i only need to show general principles to customer and give them a possiblity to view the model and give their input while i am still developing the design. This tool would enable me to do that and i appreciate very much that Mr. Bliss has chosen to share this with us all.

However, my initial test with WinXP-systems (with European regional settings) seemed to require administrator-level permissions to run compiled XGL-files. Attempts with User-level rights ended up with screen asking wether i would like to send an error report. My guess is error is caused by inability to write temporary viewer installation files to somewhere. I tried WinNT-machine as well, and there were no such problem. Is this a known issue, and if so, is there a work-around?

Many thanks,

Tero
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peichbauer
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‎10-07-2003 02:29 AM
‎10-07-2003 02:29 AM

Ok, I've run the install program, now how do I get it to work? Not being a VB guru, I'm a little bit at a loss....




Phil Eichbauer


RWC Inc.
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Anonymous
in reply to: MDallaire
‎10-07-2003 02:37 AM
‎10-07-2003 02:37 AM

Tools >> Export File

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"peichbauer" wrote in message news:f19089a.3@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Ok, I've run the install program, now how do I get it to work? Not being a VB guru, I'm
a little bit at a loss....
>
> Phil Eichbauer
> RWC Inc.
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Anonymous
in reply to: MDallaire
‎10-07-2003 03:26 AM
‎10-07-2003 03:26 AM

In the Print Drawing << Name , I can choose
Acrobat Distiller and have a .pdf file from IV .idw.

Please tell me what other features  I'd
get from PrinttoPDF ?


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Hey
all,
I just installed Charlie's Inventor to jpeg plugin and must say this
really fills in a gap between Inventor and Solidworks. The .jpeg export works
great and the .XGL produces a package like edrawings from Solidworks. It is
well worth installing, and, dare I say it, worth Autodesk buying from Mr.
Bliss to include in the next version of Inventor.
A must for communicating
with clients and suppliers!
Hats off to Charlie - thanks for the cool tool

.md.

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peichbauer
in reply to: MDallaire
‎10-07-2003 04:22 AM
‎10-07-2003 04:22 AM

This is perfect, except..... We need a measurement tool. Then we could give this to our checkers, project leaders, etc.... Any chance of this Charles???




Phil
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Anonymous
in reply to: MDallaire
‎10-07-2003 06:36 AM
‎10-07-2003 06:36 AM

That looks like a great program.  I tried it
on a couple of assembly files and was very impressed.  Are there any
directions for use?  I created the .xgl files.  On one assembly the
resulting file showed all components although the assembly had several parts
with visibility off.  I went to another assembly and the resulting .xgl
showed only the visible parts as I would have expected.  Since I had not
used the program before, I may be overlooking something.  What should
display in the .xgl?  Can I change to a design view and create a file that
shows only those parts?  Thank you.

 

        Ed
R

 


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Hey
all,
I just installed Charlie's Inventor to jpeg plugin and must say this
really fills in a gap between Inventor and Solidworks. The .jpeg export works
great and the .XGL produces a package like edrawings from Solidworks. It is
well worth installing, and, dare I say it, worth Autodesk buying from Mr.
Bliss to include in the next version of Inventor.
A must for communicating
with clients and suppliers!
Hats off to Charlie - thanks for the cool tool

.md.

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Anonymous
in reply to: MDallaire
‎10-08-2003 12:30 AM
‎10-08-2003 12:30 AM

It's so cool !


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Hey
all,
I just installed Charlie's Inventor to jpeg plugin and must say this
really fills in a gap between Inventor and Solidworks. The .jpeg export works
great and the .XGL produces a package like edrawings from Solidworks. It is
well worth installing, and, dare I say it, worth Autodesk buying from Mr.
Bliss to include in the next version of Inventor.
A must for communicating
with clients and suppliers!
Hats off to Charlie - thanks for the cool tool

.md.

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Anonymous
in reply to: MDallaire
‎10-09-2003 10:32 PM
‎10-09-2003 10:32 PM

I write these programs on my own "spare" time and don't have the free
time to add that much capability to it although I agree that it is a
much needed capability.

peichbauer wrote:

> This is perfect, except..... We need a measurement tool. Then we could
> give this to our checkers, project leaders, etc.... Any chance of this
> Charles???
>
> Phil
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