OBJ Import for Alibre Design is a Wavefront OBJ file import add-on for Alibre Design®. This add-on gives Alibre Design the ability to import mesh data from Wavefront OBJ files.
OBJ Import for Alibre Design reads polygon mesh data stored in Wavefront OBJ files and imports it into Alibre Design. A polygon mesh in a OBJ file is comprised of a set of triangular faces. OBJ Import for Alibre Design creates trimmed planar surfaces for each triangle and knits them together to create a solid body.
OBJ Import for Alibre Design is very easy to use. It adds new commands to Alibre Design. Once installed, it automatically loads itself into Alibre Design and adds a new submenu called "OBJImport" to the Alibre Design menu containing these newly added commands.
The 'OBJImport' submenu consists of the following commands:
Import - Import a OBJ file
Help - Display the OBJ Import for Alibre Design help file
Register - Register your copy of OBJ Import for Alibre Design
About - Display the OBJ Import for Alibre Design About box
The OBJ File Format
The OBJ file format is a geometry definition file format first developed by Wavefront Technologies for its Advanced Visualizer animation package. The file format is open and has been adopted by other 3D graphics application vendors, making it a universally accepted geometry file format. The OBJ file format is a simple data format that represents 3D geometry alone - namely, the position of each vertex, the texture coordinate associated with a vertex, the normal at each vertex, and the faces that make each polygon.