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,
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.