what formatting do you prefer?

[Jane]

We are working on a project for a company that manufactures trim and molding pieces for interiors.

 

We would like to make artwork available to the design community free of charge so that the molding can be incorporated into their designs.

 

The hope is that this would raise awareness of the use of trim/molding in general and the many variations available.

 

We would like to know from the design community what is needed and wanted to make this quick and easy.

 

The images are currently all AutoCAD cross- section renderings, but we could convert these into any desired file format and even pre-manipulate the images into three-dimensional extrusions.

 

What is desired is for us to be able to make files that will be widely used, and we'd like to make them super-easy for the designers to incorporate into their design.

 

What would be truly useful? Wire-frames? Solid 3-D grayscale images? Pre-colored? Perspective 3-D extrusions?

 

In what file formats? CAD? TIFF? JPG? GIF?

 

Thank you very much for help on this!

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

i would recommend sticking with 2d profiles. i don't know how others work, but i do the majority of my modeling in formz. if i were going to use these shapes, i would create a vector line between the wall and ceiling (in the case of crown molding) and then sweep the shape along the vector line.

 

as for a universal file format.. i have always like ai files, but i don't think autocad supports them.

[Jennifer]

Hi,

 

AutoCAD DXF or DWG 2D profile would work well for 3ds max. The 3DS format, too. Lofting along a spline is the method that we'd use, too.

 

 

[ August 11, 2003, 05:40 PM: Message edited by: Jennifer ]