Exporting rotation info

by Dusan Bosnjak

Dec 5, 2009

I have a bunch of boxes representing a brick wall created by grasshopper. In GH each box was rotated from a certain position. Is there a way to export this info, because i would like this to eventually find its way into 3ds MAX. In max there is a "pivot" for each object. When i import the geometry from rhino, every box is a seperate object, but each pivot has the same orientation, even though the boxes themselves are rotated.
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    Suryansh Chandra

    That in my opinion would need some fooling around with MXS... GH can probably output the rotation info into a txt, and you export the boxes unrotated.

    In max, you would have to write a little script that changes each object's pivot to your reference point, read info from that txt and rotate it again.

    I wouldn't rely on File Import/Export to give me that functionality because for starters, Rhino does not work with the concept of pivots, and next, even if it did, I think most file exchange formats don't preserve that information.
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    Dec 6, 2009