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I tried with Bryce 4.....and never had any luck.....now trying with Bryce5 .....still no luck.....anyone know if this is possible....or if there is another program that will switch these files to something Bryce will read???

It seems to import them fine in both versions 4 and 5 on my Macs. What app are you exporting your 3dmf file from?

I'm not exporting them from a certain program.....they are some architectural files I downloaded from a site....I have tried both ways on Bryce of loading them in.......but no luck

Hmmm...weird, I've tried several .3dmf files and they all import fine, are you trying to load/import them into the create palette or by using the edit>import function?

Another approach is to load them into the user palatte of the "create" menu. Ive had good luck handling the very files youre talking about.

Give a shot to a conversion program at http://www.xdsoft.com/explorer/

It's possible I can shed some light on this. There is a site offering architectural models in what it calls 3dmf format, but the files have the extension .dw. It's an ASCII based format and Bryce won't read it. Nor will the xdsoft conversion program. If anyone has any more information about .dw format, please chip in!

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Bryce for Windows will not import .3dmf files, this is the mac version of .3dmf and won't work (something about binary vs. ascii I think). Polytrans will do it, and that's the only app that I've found that works on PC. Polytrans is about $400. Try the downloadable demo version (the demo deletes every fifth polygon when converting files.)

I saw that, but I've better uses for $400. Is .3dmf the same as .dw?

Sorry, no idea what .dw is. I think that is a proporietary format used by Design Workshop, but as far as I can tell it is basically .3dmf, so changing the extension might work.

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ok.....thanks all........that's seems to put everything into perspective....... watman54 Mark Watson