surface display

[s0l0seven]

Question, I imported an iges file and my arks look choppy, is there a way I can display a smoother ark?

[Toby]

If possible try changing the view resolution to as high as possible (20000 autodesk)prior to exporting.

[s0l0seven]

we do not have A-CAD

[Toby]

What system is creating the IGES translation?

[s0l0seven]

what ever one the our customer used, I dont know.

[Toby]

I created a round in Autocad with the viewres poor. The round looked like a octogon. I then exported it in several .DXF formats and then brought them into M/C. M/C brought both files in looking good. So my first thought didn't work out.

If you analyzed what is being brought in does it say it's a diameter or a line segment?

[cadcam]

Are the arcs as you stated arcs or splines?

[ 09-10-2001: Message edited by: cadcam ]

[ProductDevelopmentGuy]

My guess is that the arcs appear very small on your screen when the IGES file is first read in. We use a DisplayList to store the displayed points for each entity, and when an entity is very small when first drawn, it is saved with only a few points. We try to dynamically smooth this out when you zoom in, but if there's a big change in screen scale, they could still appear coarse. What I would recommend is zoom in on the part and then run Screen/Next/Regenerate - this will rebuild the DisplayList at the current screen scale. Hope this helps.

PDG

[s0l0seven]

Hot Damn, THANK YOU GUYS