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Hi Chain,
in the newest development of iges solids are also involved, but a lot of CAD-systems are not able to import them. 3.7MB for the ceramic bowl of the toilet as .igs surfaces is much too large and the presentation even in Rhino is not correct and so you can't use it. Originally the bowl is a solid. Go to http://www.tecma.net/nautica/files/3d/silence_plus/silence_plus.html and i think not larger then 0.2MB. So it would be easy to save it as a solid in .stp-format.
There are large differences between the geometrical objects point, curve, surface, solid.
In our models we use normally a combination of surfaces and solids. Surfaces for the hull and solids for the rest.
Cheers
Bernd
in the newest development of iges solids are also involved, but a lot of CAD-systems are not able to import them. 3.7MB for the ceramic bowl of the toilet as .igs surfaces is much too large and the presentation even in Rhino is not correct and so you can't use it. Originally the bowl is a solid. Go to http://www.tecma.net/nautica/files/3d/silence_plus/silence_plus.html and i think not larger then 0.2MB. So it would be easy to save it as a solid in .stp-format.
There are large differences between the geometrical objects point, curve, surface, solid.
In our models we use normally a combination of surfaces and solids. Surfaces for the hull and solids for the rest.
Cheers
Bernd