IGES help?

[67 Yankee]

I have an IGES file that I think is probably OK but when I open it all the surfaces come in as planes ( so funny! since it's a helicopter )...

 

I've tried playing around with the tolerances in MC but seems like I can't make the model come in any better or worse. Are there some IGES filter or version settings I can change that might give me a smooth model?

 

I'm hoping I can get it close to the one shown here: http://www.3dcadbrowser.com/preview.aspx?ModelCode=22926

 

Right now it looks like this:

 

[Ron Branch @ Verisurf]

I think some of the surfaces you see just need to be blanked they are the untrimmed surfaces. Blank then and see if the detail surface is still there.

 

HTH

[Ron Branch @ Verisurf]

Ok I think what you are trying to say is faucet. If that is the case it goes back to what it was made in. I suspect it was an STL or some file like that then converted over to a IGES and that always gives those type of results. At that point make you some geometry and start remodeling it.

 

Good luck.

[67 Yankee]

faucet?

 

Ron, are you calling me a drip?

 

Yeap, it's completely faceted. I even tried creating curves on all edges and screen>statistics came up with 59789 lines and 17257 untrimed surfaces. Not a single arc or spline in the place!

I was hoping it was all in my settings but sounds like maybe that all this model has to offer, huh?

[Ron Branch @ Verisurf]

Yeah I am afraid so.

[Pete Rimkus from CNC Software Inc.]

Can you upload or email me the IGES file? I might be able to help decipher what's inside.

[Leigh @ Kodiak]

I don't have much going on this weekend. I will give it a go too if you like.

[Thad]

Looks like a AH-1F Cobra.

 

Thad

[67 Yankee]

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Looks like a AH-1F Cobra.

 

Thad

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I'm not really sure anymore!

After I started messing with RC heli's I started searching around and most of the pics I find of the S models have the bubble shaped canopies. The more pics I found the less sure I became of what was supposed to be what, haha. What I do know is it looks a WHOLE lot like the AH-1S model I used to work on when I was a young helicopter mechanic. I think maybe at one point the army retrofitted various models with the flat pane windows and didn't rename them just to make things confusing. They love to make things confusing!

 

Suits my purpose whatever it is

[MotorCityMinion]

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[Hardmill]

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Looks like a AH-1F Cobra.

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What a dope, its a helicopter

"sheeesh"

 

this is a cobra :

 

 

Have a great Sun guys, im off to Nascar

 

 

 

PEACE

[67 Yankee]

New name for me.

67Y was my military occupational specialty(MOS).

Pronounced "six-seven yankee" when I was doing the job and it's a lot better fit, not to mention a heck of a lot easier to spell!

 

Thanks for the help on the file guys