The Wavefront format was originally developed for the “Advanced Visualizer” software. It is used for describing objects in a realistic form for film and video.

It is particularly popular with 3D animation software.

Wavefront contains information on 3D geometry, material, light and movement.

The files can be in both ASCII format and binary form. Arbortext IsoDraw CADprocess can import only files in ASCII format. You can recognize these by their extension .obj.

The Wavefront format always contains 3D data. This means that Arbortext IsoDraw CADprocess must be used for importing. Since only the outline structure is important for the Technical Illustration, only Wavefront elements that can be converted to surfaces or lines are imported. If assembly structures are present, these are adopted similarly to the IGES format.