i had this incredibly funny idea for a puzzle game: all of the parts for a car/computer/(other complex mechanical assembly) are dumped in front of the player, who must assemble [that thing] from scratch.

i searched online for high-fidelity full-assembly CAD of a car. i eventually found GMU CCSA’s public library of scanned cars (with internals!). unfortunately, all of the files use a weird ahh format called LS-DYNA that’s typically used for finite element analysis. obviously the only logical solution is to reverse engineer the file format because too bad it lacks basically any documentation :(.

so far i’ve figured out how to export individual parts, so long as the part consists exclusively of non-degenerate hexahedrons