I am looking at a converter for different formats and came across this program. It has several formats I need for the different modeling programs I use. Does any one know if it is "poser" friendly with conversions? I have used several converters for both 3ds and obj format where the faces where inverted after conversion.

KarenJ has moved this thread from the Critique Forum forum to the 3D Modeling forum as of Thursday, November 6, 2008 1:27 pm.

Thanks for moving it for me.

I believe 3ds is triangles only , so its not a preferred format . The best format if available is obj.

What modellers do you have that DONT do obj ?  just curious .

It is a cad software I use to model my "Brick" models.  I am just trying to get a cleaner obj file from the ones that the software creates.

My experience with TurboCAD left me hating CAD for modeling.  The mesh was always a mess with vertices and edges all over the place.  For clean meshes I would suggest giving modeling in Wings3D or Blender 3D a try.

If you load a model in the free uvmapper and then save the obj , it gets rewritten in a standard format. It does a good job of getting applications to share obj files. 

I use Carrara Pro 5.1 as a format converter.  Its OBJ export and mapped textures work great in every 3D app I import into.

Quote - If you load a model in the free uvmapper and then save the obj , it gets rewritten in a standard format. It does a good job of getting applications to share obj files. 

I am trying something different. I have 3 file formats that I can export to that Poser will read, 3ds, obj and dxf. I am experimenting with Sketchup to import the file(s) in there then exporting as obj. to see how they look. My last option is to live with the size of the file.