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Digital Sculptors

Welcome

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Welcome to Digital Sculptors. My name is Rajeev Nair and this is my home page. I am an industrial designer interested in CAID and transportation design.

I am putting together articles related to Autodesk Alias® and other CAID related issues. Please refer on-line alias help for a detailed documentation. I hope to update on a regular basis. Please check the RSS feed for updates.

 

Alias Plugins

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I am happy to announce the availability of following Autodesk Alias® plugins

  • Rhino to Alias: Import all versions of 3DM files.
  • Alias to Rhino: Export 3DM v4 files.
  • Import CSV: Import 3d point file in CSV format.

Please visit the software page for more details.

 

 

Alias To Rhino Plugin

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Update

The second released candidate has been released today. Changes include much better brep calculations and other minor fixes.

Download the software

Alias_to_Rhino_RC2_x64.msi

Alias_to_Rhino_RC2_x86.msi

The plugin will expire on 16 Feb 2012.


 

Update

A new version of the plugin was released on 24 Jan 2012. The following are the changes

  • Added support for Shells
  • Improved trimmed surface transfer
  • other minor bug fixes
Alias_to_Rhino_RC1_x86.msi
Alias_to_Rhino_RC1_x64.msi
The plugin will expire on 16 Feb 2012.

As a sequel to the Rhino to Alias Plugin, I am happy to announce the availability of Alias to Rhino plugin. The plugin is still under development. At present the following data sets are translated.

  • Surfaces as Brep
  • Curves as NURBS Curves
  • Meshes
  • Point Cloud as Point sets
  • Groups
  • Layers
  • Shaders as Render Materials
  • Various lights (point, spot, area, linear, directional
  • Instances as geometry
 

Import CSV plugin

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This is a plugin for Alias 2012 64bit to import CSV ( Comma Separated Values) files. CSV files are typically generated from CMMs and other scientific data output from software such as Matlab.

You can get developmental version of the plugin here.

Requirements

  • Alias 2012 64bit
  • VC++ 2010 runtime.
The plugin will expire on 26th December 2011.
Please do post your comments.
 

Rhino to Alias 2012

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Rhino to Alias Plugin 2012

After three months of preview releases, I am happy to announce the availability of the Rhino to Alias plugin. Please see the software page for more details and downloads.

I thank everyone for the feedback on the pre-release software, without which the development would have been impossible. Special mention to

 

  • Bob McNeel and Dale Fugier of Robert McNeel & Associates
  • Steffen Schleicher and Andreas Krause of BMW
  • Sam Antos, Wayne Olive, Phil Brown and Arvind Thangli of Autodesk

 

 
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