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Kurtziru
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.IV Files not showing up

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I'm new to FreeCAD and I've recently gotten into game design however I'm trying to port over some models which are in the .IV format by importing them then exporting them however nothing shows up?
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Re: .IV Files not showing up

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Can you provide your full infos (follow the link in the red banner) and an example file ?
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Kurtziru wrote: Sun Aug 14, 2022 5:23 pm ...
can you upload the file somewhere?
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Thing I tried to Import : https://www.mediafire.com/file/j2k1ay7e ... ts.iv/file
Virus Total : https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/d60 ... 723cf2e61b
Download link of the file, To the person above that's the file I tried to import and it showed nothing for me, It's a map in dark souls two but won't appear I want to convert it but when I convert it to an obj it appears as 0 kb and doesn't show up in the first place when I import it.
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* File > Import : a "10_10_Forest of Fallen Giants" appears in the construction tree :P but nothing is visible :x .
* Mesh Design workbench > Mesh_Import... : nothing happens :cry:

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Re: .IV Files not showing up

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Is there anything I could do about this then?
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I do not know any details, but that file is binary.

FreeCAD can import ASCII Inventor files, but I doubt it can deal with a binary format.

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It looks like the file is invalid because according to https://developer.openinventor.com/User ... ormat.html it must start with the line #Inventor V2.0 binary but when opening it in a hex editor you can see it doesn't.
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How would I make it suitable for this then and is there a way to convert it to ascii?
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Kurtziru wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 8:38 am ...
is it possible to ask the creator of the file for a different format?
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