RE: re[2]: [cgmo-webcgm] Rob's respons on NURBS test

oops....I think that's a NUB??

Thx....Dave


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-----Original Message-----
From: Don Larson [mailto:] 
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 10:19 AM
To: Dieter Weidenbrueck; Cruikshank, David W; 'CGM Open WebCGM TC'
Subject: re[2]: [cgmo-webcgm] Rob's respons on NURBS test

All,

Here's a real world CAD CGM file that uses NURBS.
This was created with AutoCAD.

Don.


  > > This all leads to an observation/question.  Why is it that in
  > > all of the time we've been soliciting files for the NURBS
  > > test suite, the only NURBS example (with weights not equal to
  > > 1.0) was created by hand?  Are these things actually produced
  > > by any CAD systems in common use?"
  > > 

  > My personal opinion on this one continues to be that there is no
particular
  > reason for NUBS/NURBS in our environment. However, to allow for one
single
  > in-house-built product to play with these kind of curves, all others
have to
  > implement it as well...;-)