Actually the reference Google has is wrong. ACIS stands for Alan (Grayer),
Charles (Lang), Ian's (Braid) System. They were the 3 people at Three-Space
Ltd who initially wrote the solid modeler for Spatial Technology. There
were no marketing people around and they had to call it something. Those 3
guys had a long history of writing modelers, all of which were named after
figures in Greek or Roman mythology, so here's a bit to trivia that most
people don't know; they picked the order of their initials in the name
because they found this:
Acis was the son of Faunus, in love with Galatea, a sea nymph. The cyclopean
giant Polyphemus also loved Galatea, but she rejected his advances. Out of
rage and jealousy, Polyphemus attacked Acis, and crushed him under a huge
stone. Stricken with grief, Galatea returned for ever to the sea. However,
the sea gods were moved by her sorrow, and caused Acis to be reincarnated as
an ever-flowing river, whose waters would flow into the sea and mingle with
her tears.
Spatial never promoted this for the obvious that ACIS was killed by a big
guy.
As for .sat, it stands for "Save As Text" (it's ASCII), there's also .sab
which stands for "Save As Binary". Again, no marketing people involved.
Enjoy,
Roger Mollon
MSD - Novi
Autodesk Inc.
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> What does sat stand for as in saving an ACIS file as *.sat
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