chapinito opened this issue on Dec 30, 2001 ยท 8 posts
chapinito posted Sun, 30 December 2001 at 2:36 PM
I seem to be getting a read error in Bryce every time I try to open a 3D object created in Vector Works or Autocad2000. Please let me know how to open 3D objects created in AutoCad or VectorWorks. Thanks...
allengraph posted Sun, 30 December 2001 at 6:03 PM
I have that same problem with some 3ds files in bryce 5...but they work fine in bryce 4...not sure why
jarviss posted Sun, 30 December 2001 at 6:19 PM
i'm very new to bryce 5 and have been exporting my autocad models as .3ds and importing them into bryce all day.... but tried the same thing with dxf and got an error.. i dont know the pros/cons of using .3ds or .dxf but i'm sticking with what works good luck maybe you can 'fiddle' with the 3dsout command in autocad? with the autowelding or other options? sorry im not much help.. -michael
Triarch posted Tue, 15 January 2002 at 4:49 PM
I've created (or tried to) lots of .DXF objects with Elefont. I don't know what's going on under the hood, but it seems like 2 out of 3 times, the .DXF will crash Bryce immediately upon import. Has anybody else seen this? Any workarounds? Am I doing something stupid? Any advice would be helpful.
Peej posted Tue, 15 January 2002 at 9:16 PM
I have the same problem, but not with the same frequency. Maybe 10% of dxf files crash Bryce. I have never figured out why either.
MightyPete posted Fri, 25 January 2002 at 3:48 PM
The Mighty Pete comes to the rescue and finally squashes this stupid disturbing bug dead !
I have here for sale lots of dxf files that work with Bryce here in the marketplace and have been getting complaints that they're now for some reason crashing Bryce. What? I figured they have all been already checked and they all work how is this possible?
Well on real careful and many many hours I might add I've come to the conclusion that there is nothing wrong with my files at all and it's a BUG in Bryce.
It all has to do with where the files are sitting on your hard drive and nothing to do with the actual files.
D:/dxf files/ works every time
d:/program files/dxf files/ does not work...
And even more disturbing is that sometimes if you bury your files they will load then trying again makes Bryce crash.
There is no pattern too the crashing. The further down in your drive the higher the probability that it will crash Bryce and at just 2 folders deep the probability is over 80% that Bryce will crash trying to import them.
So the moral of the story is if you bury your dxf files Bryce will crash so to avoid that. Don't put them more than one folder deep.
This is really a silly bug man. Windoz machines are suppose to all handle almost unlimited folder levels.
Are we learning anything here?
Apparently not.
VirtualSite posted Sun, 27 January 2002 at 4:03 AM
Are we learning anything here? Go Mac. =)
MightyPete posted Sun, 27 January 2002 at 8:19 AM
You know what I mean. These programers man. Like this bug is still in Version 4, Like what's the problem ? It may even date back before version 4 but I can't find anyone who still has Version 3 or Version 2 to give it a try. It would be interesting for me to get somebody to test that. I searched the Knowledge Base at Corel to see if they figured it out yet. Nope every possible excuse but no proper solution.