CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
14 September 2004
Product News
Okino Computer Graphics Receives Autodesk Inventor 9 "Certification" for its PolyTrans & NuGraf 3D Data Conversion, Re-Purposing & Rendering Pipeline
Okino Computer Graphics announced that it is currently shipping NuGraf and PolyTrans software products that have received the "Autodesk Inventor 9 Certification". Okino has been a registered Autodesk developer since 1995 and has allocated over two years to the development and refinement to its dedicated Autodesk Inventor import solution.
The Autodesk Inventor solution from Okino allows geometry, hierarchy and materials (assembly data) to be transferred from native disk-based Autodesk Inventor files or from a running copy of the Autodesk Inventor directly into any Okino compliant program, such as NuGraf, PolyTrans, Discreet's 3DS MAX (via native plug-ins), Alias Maya (via native plug-ins) and dozens of other packages as outlined below.
Please refer to this URL on the Okino website for the Autodesk Inventor solutions page:
http://www.okino.com/solutions/autodesk_inventor.htm
and to this URL for a longer press release describing the benefits of the Okino Inventor importer:
http://www.okino.com/press/iv020404.pdf
The dedicated Autodesk Inventor importer benefits all Inventor users or any users in general who receives Inventor data. No longer are these users entirely dependent upon Inventor for 3D rendering, animation or data translation; rather, assemblies can now be exported through this converter pipeline to Okino's NuGraf software the viewing/composition/creation of photo-realistic imagery, as well as 3D scene data optimization and reduction, or the re-export and re-purposing of the Inventor data to dozens of major 3D file formats. The assemblies can be re-exported from NuGraf or PolyTrans to a wide range of industry standard 3D scene and animation file formats not previously available to Inventor users, such as Apple 3D Metafile, 3DS MAX (via native plug-ins), DirectX, DXF, Electric Image FACT, HOOPS, HSF, Lightscape, Lightwave, Maya (via native plug-ins), Okino native BDF, Open GL C Code, OpenFlight, POV Ray, Renderman RIB, RenderWare/ActiveWorlds, Rhino-3D/OpenNURBS, Shockwave-3D, SoftImage-3D, Softimage-XSI, STL, trueSpace, Wavefront OBJ, Viewpoint VET, VRML 1+2 and SGI Inventor2, and XGL. A growing number of exporters are available from third party companies. Note that the translation process in uni-directional as it converts solids from Inventor into polygons for the destination format.
Availability
Okino products are available directly from Okino Computer Graphics and through a number of Value Added Resellers.
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