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[George Hardwick]

I am trying to send a copy of a mc file made of solids all diff colours when I write to inges file all the surfaces come up black. What am I doing wrong or maybe how should I do this.

George.

[Jack Mitchell]

George,

 

Iges has no interest in colors, as few translation programs would.

I used to make it a habit of turning all irrelevant layers off in Acad but now I tend to only use Step 214. Keep hammering away at these though - it's the way we learn about stuff.

 

P.S. You could not have picked a worse translation method - Iges is the last only chance and unpreferred method of choice.

 

 

Regards, Jack

[George Hardwick]

Hi Jack

Thanks. What can I do? I have a couple of solid models that I need to send to a company that is using Catia 5. I tried converting the edges to curves but to much imformation,just a mass of lines.

George.

[Jack Mitchell]

Hey George,

 

That's the beauty of Iges

 

Export options in my opinion would be as follows:

1) Parasolid

2) Step 214

3) SAT

 

There might be other options available but I cannot be sure - but none would carry the color transfer to the best of my knowledge.

 

Parasolids uses a different math engine than Step and SAT both of which are based on Acis.

 

It's really slow on the forum tonight for some reason (maybe Labor Day weekend holiday)- just check back in a little while and somebody more knowledgable might be able to help you better.

 

 

Regards, Jack

[DavidB]

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have a couple of solid models that I need to send to a company that is using Catia 5.

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Use Parasolid create a .x_t file.

 

[Jack Mitchell]

Sorry George,

 

My laptop is at work and I won't be returning until Tuesday afternoon. If your really hurting for the conversion then I would suggest zipping the files and uploading to Jayson's Ftp; surely somebody can help you if you are in a bind.

Other things to consider are do a search on this forum - most everything imaginable has been done before and your solution is often found right there in a simple search routine.

 

Good Luck.... Regards, Jack

[George Hardwick]

Hi Jack.

Thanks for your time, at least I am beginning to understand, what I have done is send them some images of different views and these are OK for what I am doing. So that should keep me quite for a while.

Nice to speak.

George.

[cadist]

George, Images can't be always your solution. If you have all the patches of mcam. you should be able to export parasolid version 13.2

[George Hardwick]

Hi Cadist.

Thanks, I have just installed the patches parasolid version 14.1

When I write it as this. save it and open, it is a solid with all the various solids at different levels. will my guy be able to do the same?

Ta.

George.

[George Hardwick]

DavidB,

Hi this is what you said to do earlier, sorry thanks mate, did not understand then.

George.

[cadist]

George, Don't know much of catia. Before sending parasolid to you client do ask them which version they are able to view. And before exporting set your version to that from

File-»converter-»parasolid-»version.

HTH