How to read a IGS with vb.net/C#?

[dneisler]

How to read a IGS with vb.net/C#?

I am wanting to play around with CAM using vb.net or C#. Can anyone give me any direction on where to get any info on this. I have no idea how read the IGS info.

[SBC Cycle]

The latest standards that I am aware of can be found here. It is a full specification in PDF format. It is a large file.

http://www.uspro.org/documents/IGES5-3_forDownload.pdf

[lezdep]

There is a project - "Monocam", which is based on C# and Mono. Don't know about
IGES, but it probably reads STL. Look it up in old posts.

[Death Adder]

Have you ever looked at the contents of an IGES file? It couldn't be more poorly laid out and hard to read if it had been a binary format. If I were you I'd try for a more easily understood format. Even SAT files are easier to understand than IGES.

However, IGES has been a standard since before Moses so you are likely to find source code all over that attempts to make sense of it.

[anandknr]

I too need it...