UG converter

[jeff]

Our company is thinking about spending the $2300.00 for the UG converter.

does anyone know if this is worth it?

is there any loss of info in the translation?

[heeler]

Jeff,

 

We have UG and have always used the parasolid converter. I have not seen any problems with doing it this way. What is supposed to be the advantage of the converter?

[aberent]

I don't have the UG converter, but I do have the Parasolid converter which reads UG solids just fine as Iges does for surfaces & wire. Depends on how many UG files you plan to convert & how deep are your pockets. Just another option to consider. Also, ask if you have to buy an upgrade every time UG uprades. (I've heard the next version will be UG/IDEAS)

My 2 cents.

[Verisurf - Ernie Husted]

It's Kinda like (Parasolid + IGES)

 

It works pretty good if you have the Mastercam Soilds option.

 

As of yet it does not read Curves, only Points and Lines. Do you need to read Curves?

 

If you don't have Mastercam Soilds the converted Surfaces loses the UG Layer and Color. Is that important?

 

It's a good tool to have.

If the customer requires you to read UG.

customer does not know how to make or get a Parasolid file.

customer does not like to use IGES.

 

Go Native!

Ernie

[jeff]

so what you're saying is,

my customer can convert a ug file to parasolid,send it to me and i can open it using the parasolid converter?

if that's the case then i'm set.

loss of color and layers aren't a problem.

i just need to be able to read the file and work off of it.

[Verisurf - Ernie Husted]

Yes

[bb]

Jeff

 

We considered the ug converter. for around the same price we purchased solid edge part and assembly .Solid edge is a unigrapics product that reads .prt files also step . Mastercam can read native solid edge part files .It may be worth considering this option .You may have further use for solid edge .We use it for tool design.

[mark l]

We also have solid edge and at first we were doing the samething, bringing parts in to solid edge, saving them, then opening them up in M.C. But then for some reson I started getting a "no parasolid data found" error when I would try to bring it in to M.C., I never could figure out why, so then we started using IGES but was always missing surfaces here and there, then we went to having the U.G. guys convert it to Parasolids and now my life is MUCH easier. By the way we did have our M.C. rep demo the U.G. converter and it was no diffrent than the FREE Parasolid.

Just thought I would put my 2 cents worth in.

[DTrace]

The advantage to the UG converter by Cad Cam-E is that it will read in the tool paths also. We use both the UG and Pro-E converter and they work great. Website http://www.cadcam-e.com

[Allan]

The UG convertor supports toolpaths? From UG Cam I assume. That would be a neat trick can you post a sample file I think we would all like to see that one. The UG converter works OK but does not support face colours or compressed files. The compressed files are supported by Solid edge. Check it out on your files, I've seen way to many compressed UG files to recomend it without testing it on your typical files.

 

Allan

[Verisurf - Ernie Husted]

The new UG read dll for V9 that I just got can now bring the Face Colors and Levels over correctly.

 

I never seen ToolPaths come over!

How would that work?

 

The last Version, I think it now supports the compressed UG Files. I will check!

 

Ernie

[cadcam]

Dtrace this only works between UG & Catia at this time.