From: Randy Wilson
Subject: Vantage models of assemblies needed
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1991 18:24:58 +0000
Message-ID: <1991Sep16.182458.21397@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>

I'm using Vantage, a lisp-based polyhedral solid modeler from Takeo
Kanade's group at CMU, to model mechanical assemblies in my research
on assembly planning.  I would love to run the assembly planner on
lots of different models, but modeling each assembly takes a long
time.  So I'm looking for one of two things:

        1.  Other people who are using Vantage and have gone to the work
            of generating Vantage models for some assemblies, who might
            send me the files (in exchange for mine if that would be of
            help; I have built complicated models of a 22-part assembly
            and a 36-part one and lots of smaller ones).

        2.  Anyone who has written or knows of an IGES or PDES translator
            into or out of Vantage formats.  This would allow me to exchange
            models with a much broader user base.

Thanks in advance,