2 Replies Latest reply on Nov 7, 2012 4:20 PM by Nicholas Nadeau

Import STEP or IGES and get multiple faces

Nicholas Nadeau Nov 5, 2012 5:11 PM

Hi,

These tubes (attached) were made & exported to STP in ProE/Creo. Any other CAD software which imports the file (NX, Inventor, ProE) seems to import them as designed, with all the faces as smooth, ie: the outer tube cylindrical face is a single face (not the 3 faces as seen in the attached screenshot). Solidworks on the other hand interprets the faces as piecewise (smooth in the curvature sense, but not a single face entity).

Knit surface doesn't seem to do the trick. Repair faces is able to merge the large outer half-faces, but not the notch/end faces. Any suggestions?

These tubes will be profiled, the machinist uses Solidworks and wants smooth edges or he won't take the order...

Cheers,

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Re: Import STEP or IGES and get multiple faces

Lenny Bucholz Nov 7, 2012 1:28 PM (in response to Nicholas Nadeau)

opened both in 2 different softwares and they all open the same as SW, NX8 and SpaceClaim.

Open the proe directly into SW and see what it looks like.

Can you show a picture of the ProE part as it is shaded there.

Try an iges, parasolid (*.X_T), sat and see those work.
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  Nicholas Nadeau Nov 7, 2012 4:20 PM (in response to Lenny Bucholz)
  
  I've tried opening the ProE directly in solidworks, but I get the same situation.
  
  I've gone to making flat patterns of the tubes for manufacturing. Thanks for your input.
  
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