Inventor derived component

[G Caputo]

Does anyone have experience trying to bring in an .ipt from inventor that was derived from an .iam? I get a too many parents error.

Any suggestions on what to do? Will it work at all?

The models are Inventor Series 10 (no SP yet)

Mastercam 9.1 mr0105

[Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc]

Greg,

you can save out the ACIS file from Inventor and read in as an SAT file into Mastercam.

[G Caputo]

Steve,

Had him export it to me as a .sat, still a no go. I've had the error before on .ipt's but it usually was a fillet or something which I would have him delete and then put it back on with MC once it was converted. This one has us stumped.

 

I also didn't know what ACIS stood for and after doing a little hunting, came up with this:

ACIS stands for Alan (Grayer),

Charles (Lang), Ian's (Braid) System. They were the 3 people at Three-Space

Ltd who initially wrote the solid modeler for Spatial Technology. There

were no marketing people around and they had to call it something. Those 3

guys had a long history of writing modelers, all of which were named after

figures in Greek or Roman mythology, so here's a bit to trivia that most

people don't know; they picked the order of their initials in the name

because they found this:

 

Acis was the son of Faunus, in love with Galatea, a sea nymph. The cyclopean

giant Polyphemus also loved Galatea, but she rejected his advances. Out of

rage and jealousy, Polyphemus attacked Acis, and crushed him under a huge

stone. Stricken with grief, Galatea returned for ever to the sea. However,

the sea gods were moved by her sorrow, and caused Acis to be reincarnated as

an ever-flowing river, whose waters would flow into the sea and mingle with

her tears.

 

Spatial never promoted this for the obvious that ACIS was killed by a big

guy.

 

As for .sat, it stands for "Save As Text" (it's ASCII), there's also .sab

which stands for "Save As Binary". Again, no marketing people involved.

 

Definitely some useless knowledge to know

[Jack Mitchell]

Greg,

 

It depends on how the assembly was created. Could be separate ipt’s of each component and then assembled in a new iam or all parts could be developed within an assembly. I suspect the later for which it makes sense that a component would be co-dependant on another component which, as you know, becomes part of the assembly family of parts. All constraints need to be either hidden or broken prior to exporting.

I know virtually nothing of Inventor 10 but I am familiar with ver 9 & Solidworks.

 

Regards, Jack

[Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc]

Greg,

how about exporting from Inventor as a STEP?? Starting with Mr0105, you have STEP with Mastercam.

 

and STEP stands for?

[G Caputo]

Step = Standard for the exchange of product model data

 

I'm still trying to hunt this issue down. I am thinking along the lines of fillets again. I can pull it in as surfaces and I am not familiar with surfaces at all. When I analyze it will allow me to change the color of the bad area's and for the life of me, I can't find those colors anywhere on my screen.

 

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I know virtually nothing of Inventor 10 but I am familiar with ver 9 & Solidworks.

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The injuneer said 10 is pretty much like 9.