AccuTrans 3D

1. Platforms, prices, and company
   • Windows 95 / 98 / Me / NT / 2000
   • $20.00 in United States currency.
   • AccuTrans 3D by MicroMouse Productions Website: http://www.micromouse.ca/
2. Applications
   • The primary application of AccuTrans is to translate 3D geometry information between different file formats that are used by many popular modeling programs.  During translation, the integrity of information such as positional and rotational data and material attributes is maintained.  
3. Examples/Samples
   • Screen Shots of how files are imported: http://www.micromouse.ca/screenshots.html
   • Screen Shots of how files are saved: http://www.micromouse.ca/Export.gif
   • Avatar Animation Tutorial : http://www.micromouse.ca/avatars.html
4. Functions
   • File Format Conversions 

• The following are the list of formats that AccuTrans 3D can read and write to :

  File Format	File Extension	Read	Write
  3D Metafile	.3dmf	No	Yes
  3D Studio	.3ds, .asc, .prj (read only)	Yes	Yes
  AutoCAD DXF	.dxf	Yes	Yes
  Imagine (Original & New Formats)	.iob	Yes	Yes
  Turbo Silver (Amiga)	.ts	Yes	Yes
  LightWave	.lwo	Yes	Yes
  Lightscape	.lp	Yes	Yes
  POV-Ray 3.0	.pov	No	Yes
  RealiMation Version 4.1	.rbs	Yes	Yes
  RenderWare	.rwx (ASCII only)	Yes	Yes
  Scenery Animator (Amiga)	.land	Yes	Yes
  Sculpt (Amiga)	.scene	Yes	Yes
  StereoLithography	.stl  (ASCII & Binary)	Yes	Yes
  trueSpace	.coa, .cob	Yes	Yes
  TrueType Font	.ttf	Yes	No
  USGS 1-degree DEM	.dem	Yes	No
  USGS STDS	functionality will be added	Yes	No
  USGS GTOPO30	.dem	Yes	No
  VideoScape (Amiga)	.geo	Yes	Yes
  VistaPro	. dem	Yes	Yes
  VRML 1.0 & 2.0	.wrl (ASCII only)	Yes	Yes
  Wavefront	.obj	Yes	Yes

• Landscapes
  • Digital Elevation Model can be read into 3D meshes that can be saved to any 3D supported file format.  AccuTrans 3D reads the following file formats: Scenery Animator, VistaPro, USGS 1- degree DEM and USGS GTOPO30 files.
  • Elevations are sampled at regular intervals of every 1000 meters for GTOPO30 files and 30 meters for other files.
• Support for Animation
  •  AccuTrans 3D provides an interesting tutorial of how 3D meshes of an Avatar body can be created and animated in different frames and viewed.
• Modeling
  •  Objects while read can be assigned to different sub objects
  • Scale 3D object when either reading or writing files
  • Convert coplanar triangular faces into Quads

5. Web Resources

• 3D Model World : http://www.3dmodelworld.com/

• Comparative Tools : http://oct31.de/aw/

• The Ultimate 3D information Website : http://grafix.www7.50megs.com/