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Best way to import 3D files and link its objects with metadata?

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  • Subject: [mg116728] Best way to import 3D files and link its objects with metadata?
  • From: fonseca <public at fonseca.info>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 06:35:48 -0500 (EST)

Hi,

I have a Mathematica program that imports CAD dxf files that contain
skeletons of a pipe network, in 3D (3D representation of the axes of a
network of pipes).

With Mathematica I first transform the dxf information into a graph
type information (detecting line connections, etc), to which I do a
series of calculations.

My problem is that before I can do the calculation, I have to enter
other type of data, like flow rates getting out at each end, pipe
diameters of each edge, etc. I do this, by hand, with lists of rules,
entered by hand into Mathematica.
This is very time consuming, since each time I change a little my
network (the dxf 3d file), I have to redo this association again (I
have no way of knowing if a moved/changed line still represents the
same pipe as before, and so it gets automatically a new name for its
graph edges).

Questions:
1) Do you know if it is possible to associate metadata to each element
on the dxf file, and then import this metadata to Mathematica? Like
that I would fill in this kind of information on the CAD system...

2) Do you know of a better way of associating alpha-numeric data to
graph edges, without having to print the network very very big, so
that I can distinguish the names of all the nodes, and then produce a
list of rule by hand (GraphEdit could almost help, if it had a little
more functionality...)?

Thank you,
P. Fonseca


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