IMPORTING SOLIDS FROM MECHANICAL DESKTOP

[new learner]

WHILE IMPORTING SOLID FROM MECH.DESK,IT'S SHOWING DOUBLE LINES FOR SOME SURFACES.

[Gary]

I don't know about mech desktop import but iges almost always do that. Try delete duplicate enities or if that don't work delete all enities but the solid and go create curve all edges and pick solid. hth

[new learner]

THANX FOR UR REPLY

[cadist]

With mechanical desk top you can always export a sat file. Works great with mastercam as whole model comes in as solid.

HTH

[John Q]

Mechanical Desktop also exports Step files

If you use iges delete duplicate enities will

help. Check the tolerance you used when exporting

from Mechanical Desktop also will help. Mechanical

also has some other options to help decrease that

problem.

[cadcam]

I would like to see one of the DWG file with a solid from Mechanical Desktop. you are able to bring them right in solid and all.

[Storkman]

I always thought surfacing for Mech Destop sucked. I can only imagine solids.

[John Q]

Sure you can bring in parametric solids and NURB surfaces from Mechanical Desktop to MasterCAM. It has parametric solids and can export STEP files and it also has NURB surfaces. They come in fine. You may have mistaken AutoCAD or Mechanical AutoCAD as Mechanical Desktop. Mechanical Desktop is made by Autodesk but it is different from Autocad and Mechanical Autocad. AutoCAD and Mechanical AutoCAD solids and surfaces are not good for anything but looks you are right about those. There are many companies in my area that use Mechanical Desktop and MasterCAM to do there work with no problem. But I do understand that AutoDesk is planning on dropping Mechanical Desktop and staying with Inventor. I use PRO/E and Mechanical Desktop and of course MasterCAM because in my area that is what most companies use. I would be glad to put a Mechanical Desktop on the ftp site if you have a way to read it

[Storkman]

I was refering to Mechanical Desktop 5. still sucks . IMHO. And Autocad 2000 runs inside Mechanical Desktop.