Pro E translator problem?

[Saultspics]

Is anyone having a problem with Pro E translator? Or am I the only one? Over half the .prt files that I bring in through the translator is missing shaded when I do a shade. The parts you can see through in places. They usually come in ok if I do it as trimmed surfaces. As a solid it looks like part of the surface is missing. Is this a Pro E or a MasterCam problem? Has anyone else seen this happen before? Our engineer is running Pro E and he is not having any problems with these models. I have e-mailed one part to Greg at CNC. Does anyone else having any ideas?

Thanks

Stephen

[cadcam]

On the solid side I have seen this once in a while but most of the time works good.

 

Works every time when it come to trimed surfaces.

[McRae]

I also have the "Solids" problem that is being reported here. prismatic models come out nice but a helical cut seems to leave holes...

[mikee]

Same problem here. I had my dealer translate a Pro-e file and save it as a ver 8 file. It had several holes in the solid.

 

 

Mikee

[Neal Z]

This thread comes at a good time. We are looking into buying the ProE converter at this time. Up to this point we have used iges format to read in files from ProE. Do you feel this best way to go or is there a better way? Thanks ahead of time for your replies.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Stephen,

 

You should also send a/the offending file(s) to [email protected], and if you can give them a short description of how the pars should look and what it contaons (surfaces, solids, part, or assembly, etc...

 

About the "helical" holes. Are these just holes with threads?

[McRae]

Threads are cosmetic features and contain no real geometry in Pro/E. The features that I have trouble with is a helical cut along a shaft. Think of an etruder screw and you will see what I mean. Where the sweep comes out of the end of the shaft, when there are radii on the profile, the system gets a little messed up and will fail.

 

This is the problem that I have and have sent files to my local service center.

[Charles Davis]

I had the same problem, but tech support recommended I turn on "Attempt to Heal Solid During Import".

 

That solved all the problems completely.

[McRae]

Will "Healing the Geometry" create any additional wonky surfaces that the original doesn't have??

 

I can not modify the design model, it is forbidden! But thank you for the response, I will give it a try and do an analysis.

[Charles Davis]

It did not seem to adversely affect the model at all.

[Saultspics]

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I had the same problem, but tech support recommended I turn on "Attempt to Heal Solid During Import".

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Thanks! Charles.

I done a few parts, the only problem is it was slow going with some of big files. I can live with that.

You can also inport as trim surfaces then create soild from surfaces.

I will try to send some to QC this week.

What to send prt. file and MC file.?

 

Thanks!

Stephen

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Usually the .prt woudl be sufficient unless you've modified the MC file to be correct and the Pro/E file is coming in incorrect.

[kwolf]

I'm using v8.1.1 and when I want to import Pro/E parts , I tell the Pro/E guy to export it as ACIS (v2001 can export as far as I know) then I import it in Masterrcam. It's the best way for me to have a solid in mastercam. Or I can go with CADCAM-E translator.

[Saultspics]

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This thread comes at a good time. We are looking into buying the ProE converter at this time. Up to this point we have used iges format to read in files from ProE. Do you feel this best way to go or is there a better way? Thanks ahead of time for your replies.

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Neal.

I like the translator over iges, "IMHO" it is cleaner than iges with surfaces. If you have soilds it is a lot better. I hope this help.

 

Stephen.

[d0gFartz]

Definetly (sp?) prefer it over IGES.....i`ve done several files with it and havent had anything missing yet....seems to be convert rock solid so far

[Barry Walthall]

I am a Model Maker for Paslode and we just upgraded to solids, we also noticed that sometimes the pro-e file I translate looks like the designer didn't finish trimming the part off or left out some features. This only happens with Solids. I use the feature attempt to heal solids during translation. Is there a problem with the file or is this a translation problem. Also this file is an assembly of multiple parts. I have no problem with trimmed surfaces.

[Guest]

Barry:

 

I have seen the same problem. Sometimes the surfaces come in untrimmed or the features that were hidden in ProE come in during the conversion process.

[Greg McKay]

Guys,

 

I need files with examples of the problem. I know I got the file from ssaults. We need more examples

 

You would be amazed how close you can come to getting beatup around here by suggesting that there is a problem in the software without proof.

 

"I say it don't work they say yes it does"

 

Email BUGS TO [email protected] with a method for duplicating bug. Include example files

Is this a difficult thing to understand?

 

I went around and around looking for a reference to a bug in pro-e yesterday and found only 3 bugs logged.

 

[ 09-25-2002, 12:14 PM: Message edited by: Greg McKay ]

[McRae]

Greg,

 

Files will be on the way...

[Greg McKay]

Whats up its been a half hour I expected at least 1000 files by now.

 

I got a few.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

I sent two that I ran into something with, so there.

[Saultspics]

I sent 3 more

[cadcam]

Greg I have a file that is missing parts in 9.0sp1

but when I bring it in to 9.1 it works great still want the file?

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Uh, I sent them to QC not to you Greg. I don't like "middlemen".

[cadcam]

Well James at least you didn't say "you don't like uglymen".