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    How to read a IGS with vb.net/C#?

    How to read a IGS with vb.net/C#?

    I am wanting to play around with CAM using vb.net or C#. Can anyone give me any direction on where to get any info on this. I have no idea how read the IGS info.
    Donald

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    The latest standards that I am aware of can be found here. It is a full specification in PDF format. It is a large file.

    http://www.uspro.org/documents/IGES5-3_forDownload.pdf

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    There is a project - "Monocam", which is based on C# and Mono. Don't know about
    IGES, but it probably reads STL. Look it up in old posts.

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    Have you ever looked at the contents of an IGES file? It couldn't be more poorly laid out and hard to read if it had been a binary format. If I were you I'd try for a more easily understood format. Even SAT files are easier to understand than IGES.

    However, IGES has been a standard since before Moses so you are likely to find source code all over that attempts to make sense of it.

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    I too need it...

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