Dear Experts,
I wish to export a line body to Ansys Workbench from Solidworks. The problem is that WB cannot recognies the line because it does not have section area, second moment of inertia assigned to it.
I see that Solidworks does cannot compute sections for a 3d line sketch, it wont even create an iges from it.
Is there a workaround?
Thanks
Eddie
Hi Deepak,
yes I tried, it doesnt recognise any entities to process into igs type. I will still have the problem of no section assigned to file anyway.
Thanks
Eddie
Can you attach the part here to have someone check it for you.
Ok,
See attached line.sldprt
Thanks
Eddie
Here is what I got. Make sure you uncheck "IGES solid/surface entities" in the IGES export option.
The problem is the solidworks does not calculate the section properties of the line feature. If you go 'evaluate' you will see that it cannot compute the properties. This is what I need when I transfer into WB.
Thanks for your help though
Eddie
How can be an area of a line, there can be only length, start and end point.
For getting the area, you can create a surface using the sketches and calculate the area of that surface.
Ed, did you tried looking at IGES options in save dialog window.