Convert into 3ds

Hi all,

I've made a parametric surface on grasshopper
Is there a way to export my surface into 3ds file and how can i know the size ( width, length ,height) of my surface?

Thankyou

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Permalink Reply by Lucas Issey Yoshinaga on November 27, 2012 at 1:54pm

You can just get a bounding box and extract the values.

Or you can bake the srf and export in 3ds.

Permalink Reply by Hagani Ginting on November 27, 2012 at 1:57pm

How can i bake the surface or extract the value?

Permalink Reply by djordje on November 27, 2012 at 2:17pm

Hi Hagani,

You will have to bake the final result of your grasshopper definition to any layer. Then in Rhino select that surface you want to export, File -> Export selected -> and choose: "3d Studio (.3ds)" as file type.

To see dimensions of your surface, use the bounding box component, along with some others. Take a look at the components grouped in green block:

Definition above is just an example of a surface generation. And the last part in green is the one related to dimensions.
Your units will depend on units of Rhino. This means that, if after starting Rhino you chose "Metres" as units, the dimension values from Grasshopper (in this case: 16,0 17.0 0.974) will represent 16,0 metres 17.0 metres 0.974 metres.
If you chose inches, then values from Grasshopper will represent inches.

By exporting your model from Rhino as .3ds, it will preserve the units information too.
So for example if you would like to import your surface into Archicad, and you are using centimetres as units, your .3ds model will be imported as: 1600 cm 1700 cm 97.4 cm

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