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Re: mml files

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg57612] Re: mml files
• From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 05:16:49 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Uni Leipzig
• References: <d7k3dl$okd$1@smc.vnet.net>
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi,

MathML is the Mathematical Markup Language and is 
used to display
mathematical expressions. For a IGES file you need 
*spline* curves
or surfaces to get smooth patches. Mathematica 
can't compute spline
patches form a polygonal surface without a lot of 
programming.
Even generate splines form arbitary triangular 
meshes is a nontrivial problem
and I'm sure MathML will not help you.

Regards
  Jens

"alan notis" <spiraltooth at optonline.net> schrieb 
im Newsbeitrag news:d7k3dl$okd$1 at smc.vnet.net...
>
> I am using Mathematica to create 3D files that I 
> now want to send to be machined. I thought that 
> .dxf or stl files would be good enough but they 
> are asking me for an IGES file. Apparantly when 
> Mathematica exports a DXF it breaks it up into 
> triangles which are then read as separate 
> surfaces making the generation of a program for 
> a CNC machine impossible as there are millions 
> of triangles in the curved surfaces I need to 
> machine. Mathematica can export as .mml 
> (MathML). Is this helpful? What would you 
> suggest?
>
>
> Besty regards,
>
> Alan Notis
>