alice-teacher 3D software

[Bridgett Plexico]

I am looking forward to teaching Alice for the first time to high school
students.  I have a 45 day semester, 90 minute daily block.  Does anyone
have a rough lesson plan schedule for this amount of time involved?



Bridgett Plexico
Business Education Teacher
LHS Career Center
District Parent Coordinator, LCSD
>>> "Travis East" <teast at nhj.k12.in.us> 12/07/10 1:44 PM >>>
Yes, one of the versions of the tutorial takes you through how to take
Google Sketchup models and get them into Alice. The latest version of
3DsMax will actually import straight Sketchup files into the program.
 
Travis East

>>> "Melia, James E." <jmelia at bcps.org> 12/7/2010 12:15 PM >>>
WOW. This stuff is awesome. Thank you.... way beyond what I'm doing, so
I will really be interested in reading your stuff.

Does this also work with programs like Goggle sketchup?

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To: alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: alice-teacher 3D software

It is possible to export Pro/Desktop or Pro/Engineer files to 3DsMax
using a workflow I came up with over the summer for a class at Purdue
University. The summary of this work can be found at :

http://www.theeastfamily.net/GameDesignPresentation.pdf

If you are interested in a tutorial that I wrote that takes you through
the process of converting files from these programs to Alice, you can
click below. In particular, click on the tutorial entitled "Texture
Mapping Models from Solid Modeling Software in the bottom right hand
corner of the screen.

http://www.theeastfamily.net/tutorials/alicetutorials.html

Hope this helps,

Travis East

>>> Wanda Dann <wpdann at andrew.cmu.edu> 12/06/10 18:45 PM >>>
Hi Marilyn,

This is a very good question.  However, I suspect that the answer is a 
regretful "No." on Pro/E.

The Pro/E tool is a 3D CAD tool used primarily for mechanical 
engineering and design.
I'm sure its a great tool but I don't know how flexible it would be for 
creating
3D models that are compatible with the Maya and 3DMax formats we use
for creating models for Alice.

We are currently working on 3D models. We are very aware of the need
to make this process more affordable and more accessible.  I will ask 
our 3D modeling
folks what their opinion is with regard to Pro/E.

Wanda


On 12/6/2010 12:20 PM, Marilynn Huret wrote:
>
> Wanda, Don
>
> I have a chance to take a 3D modeling course next semester. They use
Pro\E
>
> Is that compatible to convert a 2D into a 3D object?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marilynn
>
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