Hi folks,
Today we are proud to announce the immediate availability of Ground Control. Ground Control is a digital elevation model importer with support for classic USGS DEMs and VistaPro format DEMs. Ground Control's Smart Weighting generates more accurate meshes than simple grayscale converters. With Ground Control, you can import DEMs as a Mesh, Anything Grooves, Terrain, or the new Ground Control primitive.

Read all about Ground Control at
http://www.digitalcarversguild.com/products/gc/

And see a comparison of grayscale converters vs. Ground Controls Smart Weighting and the Ground Control primitive at
http://www.digitalcarversguild.com/products/gc/galleryframe.htm

You can download and try out Ground Control from the following spots. In evaluation mode, Ground Control will zero out blocks of the imported file.

Carrara 3.0
PC
http://www.digitalcarversguild.com/downloads/c3/groundcontrol.zip
Mac OS9
http://www.digitalcarversguild.com/downloads/c3/groundcontrolos9.sit
Mac OSX
http://www.digitalcarversguild.com/downloads/c3/groundcontrolosx.sit

Carrara 2.1
PC
http://www.digitalcarversguild.com/downloads/c2/groundcontrol.zip
Mac OS9
http://www.digitalcarversguild.com/downloads/c2/groundcontrolos9.sit
Mac OSX
http://www.digitalcarversguild.com/downloads/c2/groundcontrolosx.sit

Carrara 1.1
PC
http://www.digitalcarversguild.com/downloads/groundcontrol.zip

The best place to get great DEM files is the U.S. Geological Survey at http://edc.usgs.gov/geodata/ . Select the 1:250K DEM link.

Best regards,
Eric Winemiller
Digital Carvers Guild
3D plug-ins for Carrara
http://digitalcarversguild.com

Eric Winemiller
Digital Carvers Guild
Carrara and LightWave plug-ins