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Subject: Re: 3D Object Size
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 03:41:09 +0100
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Steve Dunn wrote:
>     I have a simple cube object (simple
> for you lot, still took me an hour!)
> created in 3DS.  When I export to dxf,
> the normals are all AAF (pointing the
> wrong way), so I can only dab on the
> texture on the 'inside' of the cube.  I
> got around this by using the 'double
> sided polygon' command line wotsit in
> the dxf2rsd tool.  The real problem is
> that all surfaces of the cube are made
> up of 2 triangles.  Now when these are
> displayed, I can see the 'gap' between
> the two triangles on the textured face.

When you save a dxf file the normals swap. You must
re-swap them with "-back" parameter. 

try: dxf2rsd -back -quad2 ... ...