Can someone tell me how to convert an iges file to something blender can import?
I need to be able to convert an iges file to something like 3D Studio, AC3D, COLLADA, DEC Object File Format, DirectX, Lightwave, MD2, Motion Capture, Nendo, OpenFlight, PLY, Pro Engineer, Radiosity, Raw Triangle, Softimage, STL, TrueSpace, VideoScape, VRML, VRML97, Wavefront, X3D Extensible 3D, xfig export so that I can use blender with the geometry from ansys. If you have an idea of what conversion software can do this, preferably for free, please let me know.
There was a free program called CROSSROADS that converted different3D formats. try a google search
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