Re: requesting 'building model generator'

[Seth Teller <teller@lcs.mit.edu>]

dear jayanta majumder,

i'm afraid that our source base is not in an appropriate
state to be shared at this time.  we have torn apart the
code and are performing a major restructuring.

in any event, our algorithms are specialized in two ways
that may make them less than useful to you.  first, they
are designed to process architectural models (not ship
models).  second, they assume many conventions about the
document structure that probably do not hold for your
CAD documents.

i recommend that you absorb the principles of lewis's
thesis and implement your own procedural extrusion tools.
this will be faster and more effective than waiting for
our tools to become available.

best,

prof. t.

Jayanta Majumder wrote:
> Hello Gentlemen,
>       I am a researcher in the department of naval architecture and
> marine engineering in the University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom and
> am working on simulating emergencies on passenger ships and off-shore
> establishments. It requires topological and 3-d models of the ships'
> floor-plans. The building model generator that you maintain will be
> greatly useful to me in generating the same from the DXF line drawings
> of the floor-plans. 
>  Would you please make the BMG software available to me for my research
> pursuit? I can pledge to keep the extension open-source and will be glad
> to provide any additional information.
>  Best regards,
> Jayanta Majumder
> Research Fellow
> Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering  
> http://www.na-me.ac.uk
> University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
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