Exporting solids from MCX2 MR2

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Hello,

I've been exporting solids created in mcx2 to our CMM for inspection purposes. The format is .sat and has worked well in the past. However, my latest job caused the cmm software to hang. I then tried loading the same .sat file in Solidworks and that crashed too. So I re-exported the file as an IGES and was able to load it into SW, however SW stated the model had gaps it had to "heal".

Any ideas what could have caused this? The model was made of extruded flat geometry with boolean additions to form one solid body. Also, a couple of small changes were made to the flat geometry and the solid was successfully regenerated.

[iowajim62]

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Also, a couple of small changes were made to the flat geometry and the solid was successfully regenerated.

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go back and look at the geometry, i've seen issues where the geometry will generate a model but it actually has overlapping entities or entities that actually don't touch

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go back and look at the geometry, i've seen issues where the geometry will generate a model but it actually has overlapping entities or entities that actually don't touch

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Thanks, I'll check that on Monday.

[Pete Rimkus from CNC Software Inc.]

If you want me to look at the MCX file and let you know why it's producing a bad SAT file, you can email it to me.

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Pete,

Check your mail.

[Pete Rimkus from CNC Software Inc.]

Got it.

 

For some reason it's stumbling due to the size of the part. Is that part really @ 100 inches long? I switched to a Metric Config without scaling the part and the SAT I get after that is good.

But I need to keep looking at why...