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CAD Forums => CAD General => The Third Dimension => Topic started by: Mark on September 17, 2007, 01:14:09 PM

Title: 3D challenge
Post by: Mark on September 17, 2007, 01:14:09 PM
I'm no 3D person but .... how about a 3D model of the earth, with the continents .... to scale?
Title: Re: 3D challenge
Post by: Maverick® on September 17, 2007, 01:21:19 PM
Arrrggghhhhhh!  I did it but Cadaver's fears of the misuse of "Superflatten" have come true!!
Title: Re: 3D challenge
Post by: deegeecees on September 17, 2007, 01:24:46 PM
Quote from: Mark Thomas on September 17, 2007, 01:14:09 PM
I'm no 3D person but .... how about a 3D model of the earth, with the continents .... to scale?

Did that with AutoCad V.11 w/AME, to scale even. Broke out the encyclopedias and everything. But that was a loooong time ago in a computer far far away...   ...wish I still had it.
Title: Re: 3D challenge
Post by: Josh Nieman on September 17, 2007, 01:25:01 PM
Quote from: Maverick® on September 17, 2007, 01:21:19 PM
Arrrggghhhhhh!  I did it but Cadaver's fears of the misuse of "Superflatten" have come true!!

aaaaaaahahahhahhahaha :lmao:
Title: Re: 3D challenge
Post by: CADaver on September 17, 2007, 01:26:26 PM
The earth IS flat....
Title: Re: 3D challenge
Post by: Guest on September 17, 2007, 01:31:30 PM
Quote from: Mark Thomas on September 17, 2007, 01:14:09 PM
I'm no 3D person but .... how about a 3D model of the earth, with the continents .... to scale?
Sounds like a job for Google Earth and C3D.  Also sounds like it'd be a FREAKIN' HUGE FILE!!
Title: Re: 3D challenge
Post by: Josh Nieman on September 17, 2007, 01:37:19 PM
Quote from: Matt W on September 17, 2007, 01:31:30 PM
Quote from: Mark Thomas on September 17, 2007, 01:14:09 PM
I'm no 3D person but .... how about a 3D model of the earth, with the continents .... to scale?
Sounds like a job for Google Earth and C3D.  Also sounds like it'd be a FREAKIN' HUGE FILE!!

I wish I still had a running copy of 3dsmax on my comp.  You can flat image files and map them to a sphere.
Title: Re: 3D challenge
Post by: LE on September 17, 2007, 02:37:21 PM
Quote from: Mark Thomas on September 17, 2007, 01:14:09 PM
I'm no 3D person but .... how about a 3D model of the earth, with the continents .... to scale?

I have mine done at full scale, where do I summit the 3D model ?
Title: Re: 3D challenge
Post by: Mark on September 17, 2007, 03:13:26 PM
Quote from: LE on September 17, 2007, 02:37:21 PM
Quote from: Mark Thomas on September 17, 2007, 01:14:09 PM
I'm no 3D person but .... how about a 3D model of the earth, with the continents .... to scale?

I have mine done at full scale, where do I summit the 3D model ?

Depends. How big is the drawing?
Title: Re: 3D challenge
Post by: mjfarrell on September 17, 2007, 04:17:18 PM
ahhhh, I'm taken back to the days of Autocad Release 3.0, they included a full scale drawing of Our Solar system in the sample drawings, and IF you knew where to look (The Sea Of Tranquility) the Lunar Lander was sitting there along with a plaque.......
Title: Re: 3D challenge
Post by: deegeecees on September 18, 2007, 11:23:58 AM
Quote from: mjfarrell on September 17, 2007, 04:17:18 PM
ahhhh, I'm taken back to the days of Autocad Release 3.0, they included a full scale drawing of Our Solar system in the sample drawings, and IF you knew where to look (The Sea Of Tranquility) the Lunar Lander was sitting there along with a plaque.......

I think thats where I got the idea to draw my own in the 90's. Someone told me about that, and I looked for it, couldn't find it, so I created it.
Title: Re: 3D challenge
Post by: CADaver on September 18, 2007, 01:28:56 PM
Quote from: mjfarrell on September 17, 2007, 04:17:18 PM
ahhhh, I'm taken back to the days of Autocad Release 3.0, they included a full scale drawing of Our Solar system in the sample drawings, and IF you knew where to look (The Sea Of Tranquility) the Lunar Lander was sitting there along with a plaque.......
http://www.theswamp.org/screens/index.php?dir=cadaver/&file=solar.dwg
Title: Re: 3D challenge
Post by: deegeecees on September 18, 2007, 01:36:45 PM
Nuthin there Randy.
Title: Re: 3D challenge
Post by: Josh Nieman on September 18, 2007, 01:42:38 PM
the file worked for me.
Title: Re: 3D challenge
Post by: deegeecees on September 18, 2007, 02:00:45 PM
Ahh, must be my powerful Norton product protecting me from the harms of the world.
Title: Re: 3D challenge
Post by: Josh Nieman on September 18, 2007, 02:34:24 PM
Quote from: deegeecees on September 18, 2007, 02:00:45 PM
Ahh, must be my powerful Norton product protecting me from the harms of the world.

nay, from the SOLAR SYSTEM!!

Didn't know Norton was so powerful, didja?


Stellar, dude.  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: 3D challenge
Post by: deegeecees on September 18, 2007, 05:24:40 PM
ha-whoooaa.... dood.

 :-D
Title: Re: 3D challenge
Post by: Greg B on September 18, 2007, 05:26:08 PM
Quote from: CADaver on September 18, 2007, 01:28:56 PM
Quote from: mjfarrell on September 17, 2007, 04:17:18 PM
ahhhh, I'm taken back to the days of Autocad Release 3.0, they included a full scale drawing of Our Solar system in the sample drawings, and IF you knew where to look (The Sea Of Tranquility) the Lunar Lander was sitting there along with a plaque.......
http://www.theswamp.org/screens/index.php?dir=cadaver/&file=solar.dwg

Heh...I found Uranus.
Title: Re: 3D challenge
Post by: kentium3k on October 08, 2007, 03:39:24 PM
AutoCAD comes with a VBA sample that does this very thing.  Map2globe.dwg
It is in the program files\autocad\samples\vba folder.  I just tried it, pretty cool.