Hi all,
I’m trying to rescue an F-15 Strike Eagle 3D model from 1992 in .3dx format, which seems to be legacy Rhino. Rhino 7 can’t open it, as far as I can tell.
Could someone help me crack this please?
Many thanks in advance.
PS. There is a Godzilla (Easter egg) in the game which I also want to rescue from the sands of time. They will both live in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
Hello- what happens if you rename the file to .3dm?
-Pascal
thanks pascal! i tried that and it can’t open it. apparently rhino 4 can open it!
I’ve attached the file.
PS.rhino 2 and 3 also should be capable of opening it:
F15AIR3.3DX.zip (17.4 KB)
Do you perhaps know someone who owns Rhino 4 (or 3 or 2) who could convert this to 3dm or another modern compatible format? Thanks again!
I’ll have a try.
Indeed it does not appear to be a rhino file - it does not have the expected start secion. V4 does not like it under any name.
-Pascal
Rhino has only been around since 1998. You say the file is from 1992. Are you sure it’s from Rhino?
– Dale
Good point! Not sure at all. Sorry guys for the false alarm, I’ll need to do more research. I thought I was so close
Any idea whom I could ask about which other formats / programs were around back then for 3D modeling? I see other planes and weapons from the game that are also .3dx files so it does seem like they are indeed 3D models.
It won’t open in Rhino V2 either.
I opened it in a text editor and I can’t tell what it is, but it does not appear to have ever been a Rhino file.
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Thanks John for taking the time! This seems tough to crack, now. I’m looking at the history of Rhino and it’s not clear to me if there may have been a precursor to Rhino which I could try to find:
https://wiki.mcneel.com/rhino/rhinohistory
No.
The 3DX file format was a temporary one when we were developing a new version. We were worried that people would make a file in the WorkInProgress and not be able to open it in the current version.
It was only a partial success.
The point is the 3DX file format did not exist prior to official release. If my old memory is correct, 3DX was part of the V3 development cycle.
Thanks once again for taking the time! I’ll try to find which other programs pre-1992 used that extension. Cheers guys!
Than export it from Rhino 4 as 3dm !
ah cheers, but it was an erroneous assumption on my part, from another thread i saw. kind folks here tried to open it and it didnt work
interesting!!! haha cool. does this use 3dx files 1992 or older? thanks for the lead
Hi @henry_j
A little googling reveals that the .3dx file extension was used in Strike Eagle Eye, a set of open source tools for the F15 Strike Eagle III game. See, for example, Strike Eagle Eye - Reference Manual (sourceforge.net)
HTH
Jeremy
maybe this utility:
http://3doc.i3dconverter.com/formats.html
http://www.i3dconverter.com/formats.html
Window and Mac versions
WOW HOW DID YOU FIND THIS?? Thank you so much Jeremy!!! What a lead. Maybe I can find this software!
looks good! i downloaded it and will try to run it again (there’s a permission issue on macos with the program, but i can solve it), i suspect this may be Rhino’s early 3dx (the one that caused the ambiguity that brought me here) but it’s word a try. Thanks cdordoni!