7 Replies Latest reply on Jan 13, 2011 7:44 AM by Deepak Gupta

Assigning section properties to Line bodies for export

Ed Morris Jan 13, 2011 5:03 AM

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

Re: Assigning section properties to Line bodies for export

Deepak Gupta Jan 13, 2011 5:33 AM (in response to Ed Morris)
Ed, did you tried looking at IGES options in save dialog window.

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- Re: Assigning section properties to Line bodies for export
  
  Ed Morris Jan 13, 2011 5:42 AM (in response to Deepak Gupta)
  
  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
  
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  - Re: Assigning section properties to Line bodies for export
    
    Deepak Gupta Jan 13, 2011 6:22 AM (in response to Ed Morris)
    
    Can you attach the part here to have someone check it for you.
    
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      Ed Morris Jan 13, 2011 6:31 AM (in response to Deepak Gupta)
      
      Ok,
      
      See attached line.sldprt
      
      Thanks
      Eddie
      
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      - Re: Assigning section properties to Line bodies for export
        
        Deepak Gupta Jan 13, 2011 6:51 AM (in response to Ed Morris)
        
        Here is what I got. Make sure you uncheck "IGES solid/surface entities" in the IGES export option.
        
        Line.IGS.zip 600 bytes
        
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        Re: Assigning section properties to Line bodies for export
        
        Ed Morris Jan 13, 2011 7:36 AM (in response to Deepak Gupta)
        
        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
        
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        Re: Assigning section properties to Line bodies for export
        
        Deepak Gupta Jan 13, 2011 7:44 AM (in response to Ed Morris)
        
        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.
        
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